In Fiction
- Yukio Mishima's novella The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea is set mainly in Yokohama. Mishima describes the city's port and its houses, and the Western influences that shaped them.
- The main setting of James Clavell's book Gai-Jin is in historical Yokohama.
- Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern book series involves a spaceship named the Yokohama.
- Aya Fuse lives in futuristic Yokohama in Scott Westerfeld's "Extras (novel)".
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)