Portal:Speculative fiction/Did you know

... that critics were so harsh on Hans Christian Andersen's (pictured) early installments of Fairy Tales Told for Children that he delayed publishing The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes by a full year?
... that Tony Award-winning producer Richard Barr took part in the infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds?
... that Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy co-created a comic book series inspired by the lyrics of his band's music?
... that Terminator: TSCC's "Self Made Man" references franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger with its Skynet plot to assassinate the Governor of California on New Year's Eve 2010?
... that the role-playing video game series Xenosaga, the spiritual successor to the Xenogears video game, initially used the same composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, to write the music of the series?

... that the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship, I Walked With a Zombie, and Zombies on Broadway?