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:
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)