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- Novelist G. Harry Stine wrote the Starsea Invaders science-fiction series featuring the SSCVN USS Shenandoah.
- In the Star Trek novel Strangers from the Sky, the CSS Delphinus (CSS = Combined Services Ship) was a submersible multi-role ship of the 2040s.
- The novel Silent Hunter by Charles D. Taylor features the USS Imperator, a 1,000-foot-long submarine that carried a Marine amphibious group.
- Bill Keith wrote the novels Sharuq and Stingray featuring the USS Leviathan, a Typhoon class submarine purchased by the United States Navy from the Russian Federation and converted into an SSCVN using the ballistic missile launch tubes to launch and recover underwater fighters. Mention is also made of USS Behemoth, Leviathan's Pacific Ocean-based sister.
- Rifts: Underseas (World Book 7) by Palladium Books features the U.S.S Ticonderoga CVN-87, a massive submersible supercarrier and the flagship of the New Navy. She carries four air wings composed of S-14 VTOL fighters, IE-15AH Striker Attack Helicopters and MEAS Mk. I Manta Multi Environment Attack Ships. The Manta fighters can be launched while the ship is submerged.
- In Shadowrun the Confederate American States has by 2062 built SSVNs; nuclear powered submarine aircraft carriers that deploy UAVs and six manned fighters.
- In BattleTech the Draconis Combine uses the Lysander-class submersible aerospace fighter carrier.
- In 'Dragon's Fury' by Jeff Head, submarine aircraft carriers carrying Joint Strike Fighters are used extensively by American forces to launch surprise attacks on Chinese and Indian targets in the West Pacific and Indian Oceans. These are used in tandem with submarine troop carriers.
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“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”
—Victor Null, South African educator, psychologist. Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, introduction, Yale University Press (1988)
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