Fan Works
- One chapter of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality features a Legilimens — a wizard who specializes in being able to read the minds of others — named Bester.
- Rocketship Voyager. Captain Janeway says that if the Maquis prisoners help them, it will be taken into consideration in their sentence. Chakotay retorts that won't be much of a comfort when his friends are having their personality demolished.
Literature
- In Forced Perspectives by Tim Powers, the protagonist uses "Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun" as a mantra while resisting interrogation.
Live-Action TV
- The novel heavily inspired the psychic police of Babylon 5, although the ones in the novel are by far more benevolent. The name of the author was used for the PsiCop character played by Walter Koenig, along with possibly the Death of Personality inspired from "Demolition", the "what do you want?" question by Morden, and an Ear Worm being used to block telepathic scanning.
Music
- Evile's songs "Now Demolition" and "Five Serpent's Teeth" are inspired by passages from the novel.
