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A thriller, it was the first science fiction film in Malayalam, the language in which it was made. [22] 1981 Docteur Jekyll et les femmes, also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne and Bloodbath of Dr. Jekyll, FRance/West Germany, directed by Walerian Borowczyk
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
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 ...
Part of the theory is that on a planetary scale, people are not predictable but on a galactic scale, the law of large numbers (i.e., the Central Limit Theorem) is valid and therefore, the reactions of the galactic civilization, as a whole, are predictable. Given the characteristics of psycho-historians, they are very much like actuaries.
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.
Agent to the Stars is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi. It tells the story of Tom Stein, a young Hollywood agent who is hired by an alien race to handle the revelation of their presence to humanity. Scalzi started Agent to the Stars in 1997 as his "practice" novel
He reencounters his student film project sharing the title of the movie and subsequently reunites with its actors, including one (Johnathan Pryce), who now believes himself to be Don Quixote. Matinee: Mant! 1993: In the period comedy film, an independent filmmaker produces a creature feature called Mant! that shows the combination of a man and ...
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [20] (1998) Jeff Randall: Dennis Spooner: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV) (1969) Sunny Randall: Robert B. Parker: Family Honor [21] (1999) Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins: Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) Jim Rockford: Richard T. Heffron: The Rockford Files (TV) (1974) Kiriti Roy: Nihar Ranjan Gupta ...