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The Mojave serves as the primary setting for the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas. The post-apocalyptic "Mojave Wasteland" includes fictionalized versions of real-life settings such as Las Vegas and Hoover Dam.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)