Ni Kuang 倪匡, Hong Kong #wuxia and #scifi novelist/screenwriter/lit critic, has passed away at 87. He created the One Armed Swordsman character and wrote many many Shaw Bros. films, as well as the popular Wisely scifi series.
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Ni Kuang, in addition to his own novels, also did some ghostwriting for Jin Yong and Gu Long. He also wrote one of the first books of "Jinology", the study of Jin Yong's work. He was a prolific writer and wrote the screenplays to many Shaw Bros films, such as The Avenging Eagle.
If you've ever watched wuxia or kung fu movies, you've seen Nu Kuang's work. He was even more well known for his science fiction writing. He wrote over 400 screenplays, and he wrote them not in standard format, but like a novel. He wrote over 300 novels.
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