In Popular Culture
In the military hard science fiction Looking Glass series by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor, the Nebraska is converted into the first human interstellar spaceship and renamed the Vorpal Blade. The boat is the main setting for the majority of the second, third, and fourth books in the series, Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe, and Claws That Catch.
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