Portrayal of Characters
Most Bengali science fiction authors use different characters for different stories, building them up in different forms according to the theme of the story. The stories by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal sometimes repeat names but have never used the same character in more than one story.
Qazi Shahnur Hussain, the elderst son of Qazi Anwar Hussain and grandson of Qazi Motahar Hussain, wrote a science fiction series named Chotomama Series. These are the adventures of a young Bangladeshi scientist Rumi Chotomama and his nephew.
Satyajit Ray wrote most of his science fiction works with the participation of the fictional character Professor Shanku or Trilokeshwar Shanku. Shanku is portrayed as an aged man with proficiency in 72 different languages who has created a number of innovative inventions. In Shanku's stories, he was regularly accompanied by other characters including scientists Jeremy Saunders and Hermann Krol, his neighbour Mr. Abinash, his servant Prahlad and his beloved cat, Newton.
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