"Diamond Dogs" (1974) is an album by David Bowie. "Turquoise Days" is a song on the album "Heaven Up Here" (1981) by Echo and the Bunnymen. The character Roland Childe and his obsession with the spire are references to Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". During their hibernated sleep on the way to the planet, the characters in "Diamond Dogs" share dreams which reference the novel "Rogue Moon" by "Algis Budrys", and the films "Cube" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark". The clone of Roland that stars in the story is the 19th clone. 19 is a reoccurring motif in The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, which also draws deeply from Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. In early 2017, The House Theatre of Chicago put on a full length stage production of "Diamond Dogs". Alastair Reynolds traveled to Chicago to have a discussion with fans before the February 25th, 2017 show. He discussed such topics as the "Diamond Dogs" novella, science fiction, and astrophysics.