Lord of Light
"Immortal Beloved" has clearly been inspired by Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning novel "Lord of Light". The crew of a generational spaceship posing as gods using high-tech science masquerading as god-like powers and maintaining 'immortality' by migrating minds between bodies. By way of homage, the name of the character Kalkin is a reference to one of the names given to the central protagonist in Zelazny's novel.