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* [[C. S. Lewis]] was a great Wagner fan. It annoyed him greatly that [[Adolf Hitler]] was too.
* [[Honor Harrington]]: In ''At All Costs'', the Havenite navy has a tradition of the Captain choosing the sound for General Quarters, and one appropriately chooses "[[Ride of the Valkyries]]."
* In ''[[1632]]'', Rebecca Abrabanel utterly despises all of Wagner's work, insisting it's '''not''' just because of his anti-Semitism, but that his music is the worst kind of "Teutonic bombast." As Rebecca at least verges on [[Canon Sue]], every other decent character falls all over himself/herself agreeing how ghastly it is. She feels it makes excellent psychological warfare to bombard Spanish soldiers with a lot of Wagner before blasting them with mortars and firebombs.
* The [[Sten]] book ''Fleet of the Damned'' has a moment when the main character is about to shut down his crashed starship's drive before it [[Stuff Blowing Up|overloads]], when "the ship's computer decided that it might be dying but preferred something less Wagnerian than what would happen, and beat Sten to it." (Yes, the failsafe '''worked'''.)
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