Fiction
USS Walker DD-163 is the main ship used in the alternate history series Destroyermen written by Taylor Anderson. The series begins with the Walker in the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at the outbreak of World War II. She is pursued by superior Japanese naval forces following the Battle of the Java Sea and seeks refuge in a squall. USS Walker and her sister, USS Mahan, are transported to an alternate Earth, one where a different evolutionary path occurred. Taylor Anderson also uses other decommissioned ships in these books, such as USS Mahan (DD-102), USS S-19 (SS-124), and the Japanese battlecruiser Amagi.
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“We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmares. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.”
—Daniel Easterman (b. 1949)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)