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Author | Ni Kuang |
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Original title | 衛斯理系列 |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Chinese |
Genre | Adventure fiction, detective fiction, science fiction |
Published | 1963–2004 |
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Wisely Series | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 衛斯理系列 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 卫斯理系列 | ||||||||||
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The Wisely Series is a series of Chinese-language adventure-science fiction novels written by the Hong Kong novelist Ni Kuang. The protagonist of the series is Wisely (sometimes also spelt "Wesley"). In total, there are 161 stories about Wisely recorded in 156 novels. Of these, only 150 stories in 145 novels are written by Ni Kuang; the remaining ones are written by other writers with Ni Kuang's permission. Some of these stories have been adapted into media, such as the films The Legend of Wisely (1987), The Cat (1992) and The Wesley's Mysterious File (2002), and the television series The New Adventures of Wisely (1998) and The 'W' Files (2004).