Trivia
- Kim Ohara's name is meant to hint at her specification — it references Kim O'Hara, the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim.
- Paul Lurie's last name is the same as that of a real critic, who, at one point, wrote extremely negative reviews of Lukyanenko.
- The character of Pak Generalov, a homosexual and a clone-hater, was based on a formerly famous FidoNet user named Vladimir Generalov, who was strongly against homosexualism. After the novel was published, Generalov has heavily laughed at the Lukyanenko's clumsy fabrications.
- Detective-spec Peter Valk is named after an American actor Peter Falk, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo.
- The final chapter of the novel contains a coded message to the reader. To get it, one should only read the capital letters. The same trick was used in the Orange chapter of Lukyanenko's novel Spectrum.
- While the Dances on the Snow was written as a prequel (albeit later than Genome), according to the author, it should be read after Genome in order to better grasp the universe of the novels.
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Famous quotes containing the word trivia:
“Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera—and himself.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)