In 2014, New Zealand artist Gavin Hipkins released his first feature film, titled "Erewhon" and based on Butler's book. It premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival and the Edinburgh Art Festival. In "Smile", the second episode of the 2017 season of "Doctor Who", the Doctor and Bill explore a spaceship named "Erehwon". Despite the slightly different spelling, the episode writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce confirmed that this was a reference to Butler's novel. 'The Butlerian Jihad' is the name of the crusade to wipeout 'thinking machines' in the novel, Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'Erewhon' is the name of Los Angeles based natural foods grocery store. 'Erewhon' is also the name of an independent speculative fiction publishing company founded in 2018 by Liz Gorinsky.