X-Nico

unusual facts about Project Jennifer



Pacific Vortex!

Though it is not directly referenced in Pacific Vortex!, portions of the plot dealing with a secret salvage ship designed to covertly recover both US and enemy sunken submarines and other vessels bears a striking similarity to the real-life ship Glomar Explorer, which was built by Howard Hughes under contract to the CIA for the express purpose of secretly raising the Soviet submarine, K-129 in an operation known as Project Jennifer.


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The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.