There are several works of fiction set in

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of . Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equ ...

. Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work ''

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'' by

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and

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. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that Fernando Po is the last remaining piece of the sunken continent of

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. Due to the country's permissive laws, most of the action in the American novelist

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's book ''

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'' takes place at a

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research facility based in Equatorial Guinea. The book also discusses some of the geography, history and peoples of the country. Episode 2 of the British sitcom ''

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'', " The Official Visit", involves the fictional developing country of Buranda in what is actually Equatorial Guinea. In the 2009 novel ''Limit'' by

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, set in 2025, the country's history (and future history) plays a significant role. The 2011 novel ''The Informationist'' by Taylor Stevens is a missing-person thriller that makes detailed use of Equatorial Guinea's mélange of people, economics and geography. The 2012 Spanish-language novel ''Palmeras en la nieve'' by

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, as well as its 2015 film adaptation '' Palm Trees in the Snow'', are set in the 1950s and 1960s colonial

Spanish Guinea Spanish Guinea () was a set of Insular Region (Equatorial Guinea), insular and Río Muni, continental territories controlled by Spain from 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea and on the Bight of Bonny, in Central Africa. It gained independence in 1968 a ...

and 2000's Equatorial Guinea.

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