References in Popular Culture
- In the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Worlds In Collision is mentioned as "must reading" to Veronica Cartwright's character.
- Cleveland, OH avant-rock group Pere Ubu titled their 1991 album Worlds in Collision. Pere Ubu's singer David Thomas also referenced Velikovsky in his song "The Velikovsky Two-Step", appearing on his 1987 album Blame the Messenger.
- In the episode "The Wheaton Recurrence" of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper suggests that Stewart (the comic books store owner) will have to publish a scientific paper in support of the Velikovsky hypothesis if he loses a bet.
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