- From Tom Robbins' 1971 novel Another Roadside Attraction: "In Bokonon, it is written that 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.'"[24]
- The 1963 Discordian text Principia Discordia presents Bokonon as an example of a "Brigadier Saint" in its Classification of Saints.[25]
- In "Truth and Seeing: Magic, Custom, and Fetish" in Africa and the Disciplines (ed. V. Y. Mudimbe et al),[26] the Harvard art historian, Suzanne Preston Blier references The Book of Bokonon.
- Jack Lancaster fronted a band in the early 1970s named "Karass" which included Chick Web, Percy Jones, John Goodsall and Robin Lumley.[27]
- A modified version of Bokonon's poem "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" ("53rd Calypso") from the novel was also set to music by the soft rock band Ambrosia, with Vonnegut receiving co-writing credit, and featured as the opening track on their 1975 debut album. Vonnegut wrote to the band after hearing the song on the radio: "I myself am crazy about our song, of course, but what do I know and why wouldn't I be? This much I have always known, anyway: Music is the only art that's really worth a damn. I envy you guys."[28]
- The Grateful Dead's publishing company, Ice Nine, was named after the fictional substance. Between 1983 and 1985, the band's leader Jerry Garcia worked with the scriptwriter and comedian Tom Davis on a screenplay based on the book. The film was never produced.[29][30]
- The 2009 game Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors has a material called ice-9, very similar to the ice-nine from this book. Also linked to the novel’s title, the game includes a company called Cradle Pharmaceutical.
- In the 2003 American spy thriller film The Recruit, a threatening virus that can destroy any electrical system it touches is called Ice-9.
- The metalcore band Ice Nine Kills took their name from the eponymous substance ice-9 and are fans of Vonnegut's work.
- The Joe Satriani album Surfing with the Alien includes an instrumental track called "Ice 9".
- The Born Ruffians album Red, Yellow & Blue includes a track called "Kurt Vonnegut" featuring the line from Cat's Cradle: "Tiger got to hunt bird got to fly Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why Tiger got to sleep bird got to land Man got to tell himself he understand".[31]
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