[...] fictionalized adventures of Nikola Tesla.
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Not sure if it fits the bill, but after her notoriety in Stargate (SG1) series, there was a series with Amanda Tapping, called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals".
Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper, another member of her crew turned out to be Nikola Tesla (a completely fictionalized one). Thus his adventures throughout, were also fictionalized
Not sure if it fits the bill, but after her notoriety in Stargate (SG1) series, there was a series with Amanda Tapping, called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals".
That seems to ring a bell; I believe I caught a glimpse of it, while channel surfing after midnight, once.
Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper, another member of her crew turned out to be Nikola Tesla (a completely fictionalized one). Thus his adventures throughout, were also fictionalized
So, this fictional version of Tesla was dislocated from the real Tesla's historical period? I'm unsure how to respond, is there precedent for awarding half bonus points? I am going to suggest you should self-certify, either one or a half, MBPs.
And, you're not the chalice winner.
No, I'm going to do better: I'm placing you in a super-position of both/either/or 1.0 or 0.5 MBPs, depending on what becomes convenient later.
I have no idea on the Tesla question, unfortunately, apart from Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed).
FM - short story, 1980s - Told in the first person by a movie personality - British author
I have no idea what that clue refers to.
This is Famous Monsters (1988) by Kim Newman, which is basically an Earth-born descendent of Martian survivors of The War of The Worlds talking about his career in Hollywood films and working with various stars of the twenties onward, first as an extra, next as a dumb sidekick, internment during the second War of the Worlds and subsequent war with the Selenites, then playing a thug in endless war movies including something that sounds a lot like Casablanca in Spaaaace! Eventually the humans wipe out the Martians, apart from a few survivors on Earth. After that being part of the Rat Pack, narrowly avoiding the House Unamerican Activities Committee, and so forth. It's a lovely little story, and is the title story for Newman's second anthology and has appeared in a lot of other collections:
I have no idea on the Tesla question, unfortunately, apart from Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed).
A novel that was also a film! You then shall have either one or one-and-a-half bonus points, and may - or may not - currently be in the lead.
...there was a series with Amanda Tapping, called Sanctuary (her hero character name being Hellen Magnus). Bit of sci-fi & fantasy & cyberpunk, focusing on "abnormals".
Won't bug you with the details, but besides Jack The Ripper, another member of her crew turned out to be Nikola Tesla (a completely fictionalized one). Thus his adventures throughout, were also fictionalized
Tesla being the creator of the central McGuffin of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige (also filmed).
No more bids? This was the novel I had in mind: The Tesla Legacy by best-selling Australian author Robert Barrett, another tale in which Tesla was the creator of the central McGuffin:-
Let's go back to our roots and have five stories / films / whatever about space traders - people who fly the spacelanes in ships that they own themselves, transporting cargo either for a customer or for sale, etc., whether legally or not. It must be a MAJOR part of the story, not something that is mentioned once in a while e.g. an occasional episode of a TV show which is predominantly about military spaceships or something of the sort.
NO ELITE OR DERIVATIVES including The Black Wheel, Elite Dangerous novelizations, the Elite Dangerous RPG, Oolite, etc. etc.
No two by the same author or set in the same fictional universe.
Some examples are painfully obvious but I really don't care!
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Hate to say it, but according to Wikipedia that's a series about interstellar bounty hunters - cargo isn't even mentioned. Or is there something else?
Hate to admit it, but now that you mentioned it, I think I remember the wording on the title screen starting with "I'm a bounty hunter, that's what I am" (or the sorts).
Ok, music allowed? The flower of Nite Owl's fruit would be Space Truckin by Deep Purple on their Machine Head album.
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Hate to say it, but according to Wikipedia that's a series about interstellar bounty hunters - cargo isn't even mentioned. Or is there something else?
Hate to admit it, but now that you mentioned it, I think I remember the wording on the title screen starting with "I'm a bounty hunter, that's what I am" (or the sorts).
Ok, music allowed? The flower of Nite Owl's fruit would be Space Truckin by Deep Purple on their Machine Head album.
Yes, Space Truckin' seems to qualify. The lyrics definitely refer to space travel and that's good enough for me. Have an MBP for one that I've never heard of before!
