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This reminds me of a sci-fi book that I cannot remember the name of, in which the Coca Cola company deliberately initiates the supernovae of 100+ stars in order
by d_theorist 11y ago
This reminds me of a sci-fi book that I cannot remember the name of, in which the Coca Cola company deliberately initiates the supernovae of 100+ stars in order to spell out the message "COKE ADDS LIFE!" in the night sky.
- DanBC 11y ago> In the Red Dwarf (1988-current) spinoff novel Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989) by Grant Naylor, stars are deliberately detonated to create a pattern of supernovae spelling out a Coke ad in Earth's sky. This page has a bunch of similar examples: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/advertising http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/advertising
- gjm11 11y agoAccording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_advertising it was "a Red Dwarf novel". The page doesn't say which one, but a bit of googling suggests it may have been Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.
- d_theorist 11y agoHow embarrassing for me :) For some reason I was half convinced it was HGTTG. Probably because I read them at about the same time, when I was about 10.
- david-given 11y agoHeinlein's _The Man Who Sold The Moon_ has the main character extort money from basically everyone by telling them that their rivals were planning on drawing a logo on the moon. He either names Coca-Cola explicitly, or else uses an expy of them...