Later Use of The Name
- The progressive rock band Eloy are named after the race.
- The Elokoi of Brian Caswell's novel Deucalion are presumably inspired by the Eloi, but ones without the dark side of the Morlocks.
- The book Air by Geoff Ryman contains a fictional ethnic minority called the Eloi, whose struggle for autonomy is quashed by a repressive government.
- Scottish social and cultural commentator Gordon P.Clarkson has termed contemporary Mass Culture "Eloi Culture" as he claims that it is creating a society of unthinking passive consumers of "meaningless trivia".
- James Alan Gardner uses the terms "Eloi" and "Morlock" in his novel Expendable to refer to two warring sects of 'glass people.'
- The name is used as a term of derision in the novel Feed by M.T. Anderson
- In Greg Bear's novel "Moving Mars," "Eloi" are humans who seek to extend their lifespans beyond 1,000 years, through the use of advanced medical nanotechnology and other enhancements.
- The War of the Sky Lords by John Brosnan
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