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Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou; Daniel Marchant, MI6 agent in Dead Spy Running and Games Traitors Play by Jon Stock; David Shirazi in Joel C. Rosenberg's The Twelfth Imam; Dominika Egorova, an SVR agent and the main protagonist of the Red Sparrow trilogy by Jason Matthews; Drongo in Chingiz Abdullayev's books
The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1] Later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes became the most famous example and remains so to this day. The detectives are often accompanied by a Dr. Watson–like assistant or narrator.
Slipstream is a literary genre or category of speculative fiction that blends together science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction [1] or does not remain in conventional boundaries of genre and narrative.
Currently consists of two science fiction novels (Hammerfall and Forge of Heaven). Gezeitenwelt: Der Wahrträumer: 2002 Bernhard Hennen and others Alternate world hit by a comet that forms the setting for a series of post-apocalyptic novels Gor: Tarnsman of Gor: 1966 John Norman "Counter-Earth", sword and planet setting for 30 novels. Its ...
Literary fiction is often used as a synonym for literature, in the exclusive sense of writings specifically considered to have considerable artistic merit. [6] Literary fiction is commonly regarded as artistically superior to genre fiction, the latter being a form of commercial fiction written to provide entertainment to a mass audience. [7] [8 ...
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]
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Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.