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)
“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”
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