Trivia / Millennium Series

• B-Team Sequel: The Girl in the Spider Web does not use any of the materials Larsson left behind, as those are in the possession of Gabrielsson who does not approve of a Ghost Writer continuing the series.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Not applicable to the author himself, but an article published in an Australian magazine labelled Larsson a Neo-Nazi. This is a classic research flub, as Larsson was a firm Marxist and was well-known for his work against far-right extremist and racist organizations in Sweden, including Neo-Nazis (who, in typical Neo-Nazi fashion, regularly sent him death threats). And of course, one of the series primary protagonists is the (Jewish) Inspector Bublanski.
• Completely Different Title: To make sure all the titles could apply to Lisbeth, as only The Girl Who Played With Fire was that in the original Swedish, Men Who Hate Women became The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in English (most languages went for The Men Who Didn't Love Women instead) and The Air Castle That Was Blown Up^note a more idiomatic English translation would be The Pipe Dream That Went Up in Smoke was The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (which had some adaptations such as The Queen of the Air Castle in Spanish\Portuguese, The Queen of the Castle of Cards in Italian... and another fitting example, Justice in Dutch). In German it's even worse: Verblendung, Verdammnis and Vergebung - Blindness, Doom and Pardon. The French translations has the usual The Men Who Didn't Love Women, while the sequels are titled The Girl Who Dreamt About a Jerrycan and a Match, and The Queen in the Draft's Castle. The new trilogy also had it with That Which Does Not Kill Us and The Man Who Chased His Shadow becoming The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. Finally, Karin Smirnoff's first book, The Cry of the Sea Eagle, became The Girl in the Eagle's Talons.
• Died During Production: Larsson died of a heart attack shortly after submitting the manuscripts for the three novels. Fortunately, the third book at least resolves most major active plot threads fairly well, so readers aren't left with a gigantic, unresolved cliffhanger as the ending. A fourth book was partially written and some ideas for a fifth and sixth book are recorded. It has been rumored that Larsson planned to write 10 books with these characters. Major plot points left unresolved include the fate of Lisbeth's sister, which was intended to be the subject of the fourth book. However due to ongoing conflicts between Larsson's girlfriend/partner Eva Gabrielsson (who did not inherit the rights to the books because they were not formally married, but is in possession of Larsson's notes for the rest of the series) and Larsson's family, the continuation novels by David Lagerkrantz, whose creation Gabrielsson opposed, were forced to follow an original storyline.
• What Could Have Been: Larsson wrote in his spare time as a way to relax, and only decided to try and get the books published after finishing the final draft of Hornet's Nest; he then promptly dropped dead of a heart attack. His girlfriend Eva Gabrielsson is in possession of Larsson's computer, which has at least three-fourths of a fourth novel and is rumored to have detailed synopses on the fifth and sixth books as well, though what may come of this is anyone's guess.
• Write What You Know: When he was 15, Larsson witnessed some other boys raping a girl. In Real Life, he was too scared to try and help her, and not only did she become the inspiration for Lisbeth (it was the girl's name), it's pretty easy to map a correlation between his unresolved guilt and the harsh treatment suffered by rapists in his novels. Though this was allegedly Larsson stealing someone else's story.

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