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Nostromo novel5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez's novel The Secret History of Costaguana (2007) narrates the secession of Panamá from Colombia as the background story that (in this fictional work) served as Conrad's inspiration for Nostromo.In the Warhammer 40,000 space opera franchise, "Nostramo" is a corruption-ridden city world rich in minerals, eventually liberated by a brutal tyrant named Konrad Kurze, an allusion to a central character in Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.In Dean Koontz's novel Fear Nothing (1998), the protagonist Christopher Snow visits a man named Roosevelt Frost, who lives aboard a boat named Nostromo.Furthermore, appearing in the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines, a vessel of the same class as the Sulaco is named the Sephora, a reference to Conrad's The Secret Sharer. In James Cameron's sequel Aliens (1986), the Marine transport vessel is named Sulaco. In Ridley Scott's classic Alien (1979), the spacecraft is named the Nostromo the escape vessel is named Narcissus, an allusion to another of Conrad's works, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'. ![]() Many of the place names are borrowed from Conrad's novel.
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