In Fiction
- In the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Empire faction has a mobile offshore base called Black Tortoise.
- In Tom Clancy's Endwar one of the battlefields features the USS Reagan Seabase, a mobile operations and staging ship
- In George Orwell's 1984, there are several mentions of mobile offshore bases called "Floating Fortresses"
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)