Wizard of Oz author, L Frank Baum…came up with the name “Oz” because one of his file cabinets in his office was labeled O-Z.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was originally banned in China because it includes talking animals.
Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables contains an 800-word sentence.
Charles Dickens is said to be the most cinematically adapted novelist of all time…but the most performed literary character on the silver screen is popularly said to be either Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes.
A novel written in the form of a series of letters is called an epistolatory novel.
Frankenstein’s Monster isn’t called “Frankenstein.” The only name by which it is referred to in the original novel is “Adam.”
All the profits from JM Barrie’s novel Peter Pan were donated to a children’s hospital in London.
Explanation: Which way is Comet R3 PanSTARRS going? Not towards the star at the top of the image, because that is Rigel, which, being far in the background, is unrelated to the comet. Not through the nebula in the image middle, because that is the Witch Head Nebula and it, too, is far in the distance — but not far from Rigel. Not into northern skies because over the past week Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) has moved into southern skies and is now best visible in Earth‘s Southern Hemisphere toward the west after sunset. Angularly, Comet R3 PanSTARRS is slowly moving toward the upper right, night by night, and will soon be in the constellation Orion. Spatially, the comet is now headed out of our Solar System but should remain visible to cameras in southern skies for about a week. The featured image was captured last week near Cerro Paranal in Chile.
