Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc, performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics —the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan, across the Red Sea lies Saudi Arabia, and across the Mediterranean lie Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, although none share a land border with Egypt.
The books are a mixture of short stories, reflections and surveys, with the biggest part being a science-fiction novel. Topics include time travel, other worlds, other planets, scientific experiments, dramas, predicting the future, and strange accidents. In the novels numbered 25, 26, and 50, the writer discusses Adham Sabry, the hero of Ragol Al Mostaheel, the man of impossible.
Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a widely-recognized concept in philosophy and fiction. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine.
Ragol Al Mostaheel is an action series of books written by Egyptian author Nabil Farouk and published by Modern Arab Association as a part of Rewayat. 160 titles were published from 1984 to 2008.
The novels
The Prophecy
The Sword of Justice (against unknown)
The Alternative
A Bedouin Woman
The Damn of the Sea
The Delegate
The Secret of the Palace
Investigation
The Mysterious Visitor
The Knight
The Price of Friendship
The Phoenix
The Island of the Fate
The Call of the Deep
The Terrible Experiment
The Task
The Thing
The Fifth Dimension
The Guest of the Stars
The Baath
The Maker of the Games
The Tenth Planet
The Time Machine
The Puzzle
Papers of Hero
The Epic
The Heir
The Castle of the Secrets
The Process of the Master (across time)
Qarun
The Blood
The Call
The Germ
A Vision
The Strange Man
The Brutal Series
The Trip
The Center of the Sea
The Prince
The Variables, Part 1
The Knight of the Future, Part 2
The Mysterious
This Day
The Crimson Flower
A Digital Crime
The Coming
The Memory of Tomorrow
The Star
My Dear Grandfather
The Target is You
The Anger
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