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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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“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)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)