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  2. A Sound of Thunder - Wikipedia

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    In the year 2055, time travel has become a practical reality, and the company Time Safari Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs. A hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to join a hunting party that will travel back 65 million years to the Late Cretaceous period, on a guided safari ...

  3. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    The USS Enterprise follows the Borg back in time to stop them from altering history and preventing Earth's first warp flight and first contact with the Vulcans. 1997 Retroactive: Louis Morneau: An FBI agent repeatedly travels back in time to prevent a crime. The situation worsens each time around, until she decides to let things play out. 1997

  4. For Your Eyes Only (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...

  5. You Like It Darker - Wikipedia

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    You Like It Darker is a collection of twelve stories by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner in May 2024. [1] The book was announced on November 6, 2023, via Entertainment Weekly, which provided a look at the book's wraparound cover, table of contents, and an excerpt from "Rattlesnakes", a sequel to King's 1981 novel Cujo.

  6. Minority Report (film) - Wikipedia

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    Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk [6] action film [7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in the year 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".

  7. List of characters in the Breaking Bad franchise - Wikipedia

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    This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Breaking Bad is a neo-Western crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan, primarily based on the television series Breaking Bad ...

  8. The Wheel of Time - Wikipedia

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    The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments. Originally planned as a six-book series with the publication of The Eye of the World in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and three companion ...

  9. Yiddish words used in English - Wikipedia

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    קיינ יינ-אָרע; also pronounced: kin ahurrah): lit., "No evil eye!"; German kein: none; Hebrew עין ‎ ayn—eye, הרע ‎ harrah—bad, evil; an apotropaic formula spoken to avert the curse of jealousy after something or someone has been praised; khaloymes (Yid. כאָלעם): dreams, fantasies; used in the sense of "wild dreams ...