In Fiction
Cheyenne is the primary subject of the book SSN by Tom Clancy, battling the People's Liberation Army Navy in a fictional war over the Spratly Islands. It is also featured in the video game by Tom Clancy called SSN.
In the technothriller novel Quicksilver by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, the Cheyenne was ordered to fire a Tomahawk TLAM Block Four cruise missile, under manual control of Weapons Officer Lt. Miken Marano, at the River Entrance of the Pentagon.
In "To the Death" by Patrick Robinson, the Cheyenne is tasked with shadowing an Iranian Kilo on a path through the Mediterranean Sea.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)
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—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)