@oblomov @jwz Same with Dilbert Stark naming his drone ships after Iain M. Banks' Culture universe starships. Iain *despised* Musk—and that was back before 2013, when Musk was still small fry(ish). He wrote a barely disguised caricature of Musk into "Surface Detail" as the villain Joliet Veppers, and got him pitch-perfect.