Appearance in Popular Culture
In Volume 7 of Alan Moore-David Lloyd's V for Vendetta, Inspector Finch is seen reading The Roots of Coincidence. Koestler is referenced several times in the work, and in the movie novelization by Steve Moore. Koestler's ideas would also make their way into the Dr. Manhattan issues of Moore's and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen.
The musician Sting was an avid reader of Koestler. Sting named The Police's final studio album Synchronicity as a reference to The Roots of Coincidence. Sting had named The Police's previous album, Ghost in the Machine, after another of Koestler's books.
"The Roots of Coincidence" is also the name of a Grammy Award-winning song by Pat Metheny Group, featured on their 1997 album Imaginary Day.
In the 2007 novel Hässelby by Johan Harstad, the main character is strongly influenced by this work and make numerous references to it throughout the book.
The youth fiction book Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett references this work in chapter 14.
It also featured in Episode 4 of the tenth series of Red Dwarf, to explain the cause of apparent coincidences.
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