In the satire of Gulliver Travels by Jonathan Swift, the people of Laputa argue that discovered two satellites of Mars, providing a fairly accurate discriptions. That is why the names of Gulliver Travel is used especially for the satellites of Mars. Swift classic was written about 150 years to Phobos and Deimos were discovered Asaph Hall.
In Arthur C. Clarke 'S novel "The Sands of Mars, Mars is terraformed when Phobos was ignited as a second sun through the pion-resonance response, and the novel" The Fountains of Paradise "," Phobos is an obstacle to building a space elevator on Mars because of its close orbit. In the short story "Hide and Seek", "Phobos is a scene of seemingly unequal meeting between the agent is forced to land on the tiny moon and warship him.
James Blish in the novel "The Mission in the heart of a star begins with a few astronauts exploring the interior of Phobos, which is on an artificial satellite to orbit Mars observations to explore the solar system hegemony Malis - alien collective political inhabiting the stars near the center of the Milky Way (in the heart stars' in the title).
Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson is a chronicle of the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. In this series, the weapons system is built on Phobos is activated, resulting in full moon (which at that time was a transnational military base), the slowdown in orbit and destructively aerobrake to Mars' atmosphere, absolutely destroy it.
In Alfred Bester in the stars my destination, Phobos is the second Inner Planet colonies are attacked by space satellite (the first of which is the Earth) when the military began to rise.
Episode 1 of Doom video game series took place on Phobos.