Nostromo - References in Other Works

References in Other Works

• Andrew M. Greeley's 1985 novel Virgin and Martyr has much of the story set in the fictional country of Costaguana. Many of the place names are borrowed from Conrad's novel.
• In Ridley Scott's Alien the mining spacecraft is named Nostromo. In James Cameron's sequel, Aliens, the Marine transport vessel is named Sulaco. (Also in Alien, the escape vessel is named Narcissus, an allusion to another of Conrad's works, The Nigger of the Narcissus.)
• In Dean Koontz's Fear Nothing The main character Christopher Snow visits a man named Roosevelt Frost in search of answers. Frost lives aboard a boat named Nostromo.
• In the Warhammer 40000 science-fiction franchise, Nostramo is a corruption-ridden world rich in minerals, eventually liberated by a brutal tyrant named Konrad Kurze; the name itself is derived from Joseph Conrad and his character Colonel Kurtz from Heart of Darkness.