Did they pull these names out of a hat?

With nods to Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey’s Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler’s voice, a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes.

Yeah, okay.

(I really hate the practice of trying to describe books as X meets Y, where the variables are authors or other works, but this particular paragraph takes the cake!)