Final answer:
Soylent is the meal replacement company named after a product in a 1966 dystopian sci-fi novel 'Make Room! Make Room!' by Harry Harrison.
Step-by-step explanation:
The meal replacement company that was launched in 2014 after raising 1.5 million dollars on Kickstarter, gets its name from a dystopian sci-fi novel is Soylent. Soylent's name is inspired by a product in the 1966 novel 'Make Room! Make Room!' by Harry Harrison, which was later adapted into the film 'Soylent Green' in 1973.
The premise of the novel and the film revolved around a food crisis and introduced Soylent as a sustainable food source. Although in the film Soylent was notoriously made from human remains, the modern company Soylent markets itself as a nutritious and environmentally friendly meal replacement, with no such dystopian ingredients.