In Fiction
Frederick Forsyth's 1974 novel The Dogs of War is set in the fictional platinum-rich "Republic of Zangaro", based on Equatorial Guinea. There is also a 1981 film adaptation of the book.
Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that Fernando Po is the last remaining piece of the sunken continent of Atlantis.
Due to the country's permissive laws, most of the action in the American novelist Robin Cook's book Chromosome 6 takes place at a primate research facility based in Equatorial Guinea. The book also discusses some of the geography, history and peoples of the country.
Episode 2 of the British sitcom Yes Minister, "The Official Visit", takes place in the fictional developing country of Buranda in what is actually Equatorial Guinea.
In the 2009 novel Limit by Frank Schätzing, set in 2025, the country's history (and future history) plays a significant role.
The 2011 novel The Informationist by Taylor Stevens is a missing-person thriller that makes detailed use of Equatorial Guinea's mélange of people, economics and geography.
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“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.”
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