Ni Kuang

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Ni Kuang (also known as Ngai Hong or Yi Kuang) (Chinese: 倪匡) (born May 30, 1935 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China) is a prolific Chinese novelist and scriptwriter, with more than 300 published martial arts and science fiction novels and more than 400 movie scripts.

Born as Ni Chong (Chinese: 倪聰), he grew up in Shanghai. He worked as a public security official in the 1950s in Inner Mongolia before moving to Hong Kong in 1957.

His science fiction stories, which have been enjoyed by generations of juvenile readers in Hong Kong, usually take the form of mystery - at the end the unexplainable is, more often than not, explained by pointing to the doings of extraterrestrial life. The most famous heroes in his science fiction stories, which have been adapted into TV dramas and films, are Wai See-lei (or Wisely 衛斯理) and Yuen Tsang-hop (or Dr. Yuen 原振俠).

Ni helped Louis Cha to write episodes of his martial arts novels when Cha was busying himself with other business; and, according to the late Wong Jim, that was the reason why Cha, dissatisfied with Ni's often wild extemporisations, had to revise his novels. It is known that Ni had written at least an extended episode in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, when Cha was out on holidays abroad, although much of it was excised in Cha's first revision. Ni, while helping Cha write a chapter while he was busy, made A Zi, a character from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, blind in the story. Cha has since re-edited his swordfighting works but still left this part, written by Ni, in his work.

Ni Kuang later migrated to the United States in the 1990s and has continued his writing career there.