Mc Laughlin Planetarium - Literary References

Literary References

In the eponymous short story in the collection The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro, the protagonist visits the Planetarium and takes in a show, and then goes on to visit the Royal Ontario Museum. She reports to her father, who is on his deathbed in a Toronto hospital, that she enjoyed the show but found the Planetarium to be "a slightly phony temple" to the stars.

In the opening chapter of Robert J. Sawyer's science fiction novel Calculating God, an alien spaceship lands directly in front of the McLaughlin Planetarium, prior to going on a tour of the exhibits in the Royal Ontario Museum.

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