In Fiction
The writer J. Lanier Yeates served aboard the USS California in 1974 and 1998. In 2005, he wrote the novel Bay of One Hundred Fires, an alternate history work of fiction in which the USS California is overhauled and upgraded, and then plays a key role in fighting the armed forces of the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, who had created a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
Author Dale Brown featured the USS California in his novel Silver Tower. The main character's father was Captain.
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