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In the book Moving Pictures, the alchemists of the Discworld have invented moving pictures. Many hopefuls are drawn by the siren call of Holy Wood, home of the fledgling "movie" industry. Some of them begin working in movies, specially under producer Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler. The following list only covers the characters in the book that work ...
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks; Michael Cordero, Jane the Virgin; Peter Crenshaw, Three Investigators by Robert Arthur Jr. Carland Cross, Carland Cross. Mateo Cruz, BAU Section Chief, Criminal Minds
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.
In his five-star review, The Independent’s Martin Chilton called the novel “a masterpiece of historical fiction” and “a stunning conclusion to one of the great trilogies of our times”.
Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English literature from Shakespeare to modern Fantasy authors. Here, characters or plot structure follow an alchemical magnum opus . In the fourteenth century, Chaucer began a trend of alchemical satire that can still be seen in recent fantasy works like those of Terry Pratchett .
Main cast of 1979's Alien (left to right: Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright and John Hurt). Alien, a science-fiction action horror franchise, tells the story of humanity's ongoing encounters with Aliens (xenomorphs): a hostile, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species.
Pulp Fiction premiered in 1994, bringing in $213.9 million on a budget of less than $9 million. The American Film Institute listed it as the 95th-best film of all time and placed it at No. 53 on ...