Editing Cat's Cradle (section)

==In popular culture==
* The 1964 British science fiction TV series ''[[Stingray (1964 TV series)|Stingray]]'' broadcast an early dramatization of a scenario inspired by ' Cat’s Cradle''. In the apocalyptic episode “Pink Ice,” the world’s oceans are being frozen by an ice-nine-like substance distributed via seeder mines.
* [[Jack Lancaster]] fronted a band in the early 1970s named Karass which included Chick Web, [[Percy Jones (musician)|Percy Jones]], [[Brand X|John Goodsall]] and [[Robin Lumley]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dmme.net/interviews/jlancaster.html |title=Interview with Jack Lancaster |work=DME |date=November 2009 |access-date=August 15, 2014 |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906183139/http://dmme.net/interviews/jlancaster.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 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 (band)|Ambrosia]], with Vonnegut receiving co-writing credit, and featured as the opening track on their 1975 [[Ambrosia (album)|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."<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/09/track-of-the-day-nice-nice-very-nice-by-ambrosia/499226/ |title=Track of the Day: 'Nice, Nice, Very Nice' by Ambrosia|work=The Atlantic |date=9 September 2016 |access-date=September 15, 2020}}</ref>
* 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 (comedian)|Tom Davis]] on a screenplay based on the book. The film was never produced.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/01/17/grateful-dead-inks-warner-chappell/|title=Grateful Dead Publishing Company Inks with Warner Chappell|website=Digitalmusicnews.com|date=17 January 2020|access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref>
* Vonnegut collaborated with American composer [[Dave Soldier]] for a 2001 CD titled ''Ice-9 Ballads'', featuring nine songs with lyrics taken from ''Cat's Cradle''. Vonnegut narrated his lyrics to Soldier's music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mulatta.org/ice9ballads.html|title=Mulatta Records|website=Mulatta.org|access-date=14 December 2021|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121015016/http://mulatta.org/ice9ballads.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The plot of ''[[The Recruit (film)|The Recruit]]'' (2003) involves a fictional computer virus named "ICE-9".
*The [[Born Ruffians]] 2008 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".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-11 |title=Five songs inspired by Kurt Vonnegut |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/five-songs-inspired-by-kurt-vonnegut/ |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref>