After the term "ylem" was resuscitated by Alpher, it was used in the 1952 science fiction novel "Jack of Eagles" by James Blish. It was also used by John Brunner in his 1959 short story "Round Trip", reprinted in the collection "Not Before Time". Keith Laumer in the novel "Dinosaur Beach" introduces the ylem field 1969. The term is also used by British author Richard Calder in the 1990s to describe the quantum mechanical state of the "quantum magic" in the girls/robots in his "Dead" trilogy ("Dead Girls", "Dead Boys", "Dead Things"). John C. Wright used the term in his debut novel "" to describe a "pseudo-matter" that forms "temporary virtual particles". A German black metal band "Dark Fortress" also released an album titled "Ylem". Synaesthesia, a trance classic by The Thrillseekers, has an "Ylem" remix. The video game series Ultima uses "Ylem" as a Word of Power in its incantation and runic based spell casting system, its meaning being "matter".