In Fiction
Boston appears in the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, launching cruise missiles against military airfields inside the Soviet Union. While escorting her damaged sister Providence to safety she is sunk by torpedoes fired from an Alfa class submarine.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.”
—J.G. (James Graham)