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Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:11 pm

[...] 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

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:11 pm

Fictionalized adventures of Nikola Tesla.

Commander_X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:48 am

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.

Commander_X wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:48 am

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).

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:52 pm

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:

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41935

ffutures wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:05 am

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.

But you didn't insta-win the chalice.