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* In ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'', Dahak does this to get a new captain.
* In ''[[The Scar]]'', many of the inhabitants of the floating nation Armada were press ganged.
* In ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', Nobby Nobbs mentions his mother's uncle, a sailor who was press-ganged by a bunch of farmers who tied him to a plow.
* Implied in ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Mason Brown, where Cover's characterization of the maze as a "hellish netherworld with no fixed address" implies a contrast to a less hellish outside.
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bug Martini|Bug]]'' claimed he [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514064537/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/shanghai-surprise/ isn't afraid] of getting shanghaied.
* The plot of ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' begins with the alien Nogg abducting six humans to serve in the [[Slave Race|Eeb]] liberation movement. However, he specifically chooses six individuals who would be most likely to help, and he does allow them to opt out after explaining the situation to them.
 
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