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This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Ulysses Klaue, a supervillain, has his arm chopped off by Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron and his replacement arm is made of vibranium. In the young adult realistic fiction novel The Running Dream, the protagonist Jessica is a runner who loses a leg in a bus accident on her way home from a race. With the help of her community, Jessica's ...
This later turned out to be the work of the entity's "doctor", who is an intelligent, organised collection of microscopic, virus-type cells. Once Doctor Conway realises this, he uses a wooden stake to make the ELPH's doctor focus itself in one small location, at which time it is removed from the ELPH, informed regarding the physiology -problems ...
Here are the best sci-fi books for all readers, whether you haven’t touched a book since high school or you daily burn incense to the alter of Arthur C. Clarke. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Here’s our pick of the very best fiction of 2024. James by Percival Everett Future classic: Percival Everett brings new life to ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ (Pan Macmillan)
The 1900s by and large saw the rise of the "doctor novel" as a literary subgenre, which itself is a subset of, or otherwise synonymous with, medical fiction. [14] A 2009 book, Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature, discusses medical practitioners ranging from the late 12th century to the early 21st, including small analyzes of their ...
Great Science Fiction About Doctors is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin and Noah D. Fabricant, M.D. It was first published in paperback by Collier Books in 1963, and was reprinted in 1965, 1966, and 1970. [1] The two later collaborated on a second anthology, Great Detective Stories About Doctors.
Passage is a science fiction novel by Connie Willis, published in 2001.The novel won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 2002, [1] was shortlisted for the Nebula Award in 2001, [2] and received nominations for the Hugo, Campbell, and Clarke Awards in 2002.