Is there room for a Literary James Bond Continuation c.1966-2015 book?
Silhouette Man
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I personally think that there is and that it is high time that such a book was written.
It would cover Amis-Markham/Pearson/Wood/Gardner/Calder-Marshall/Benson/Weinberg/Faulks/Higson/Boyd/Deaver/Horowitz etc. and would tell the behind-the-scenes-history of the whole Continuation from its origins in the 1960s to the present day.
There is still so much we do not know about the Continuation over the last fifty years of its existence.
Would anyone like to see/read such a book if it was published or are the parameters too specific for a James Bond general readership?
Who would/should/could write it?
Just curious as this is (as you may already know!) an area of Bondology I'm very interested in.
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It would cover Amis-Markham/Pearson/Wood/Gardner/Calder-Marshall/Benson/Weinberg/Faulks/Higson/Boyd/Deaver/Horowitz etc. and would tell the behind-the-scenes-history of the whole Continuation from its origins in the 1960s to the present day.
There is still so much we do not know about the Continuation over the last fifty years of its existence.
Would anyone like to see/read such a book if it was published or are the parameters too specific for a James Bond general readership?
Who would/should/could write it?
Just curious as this is (as you may already know!) an area of Bondology I'm very interested in.
-{ "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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Couldn't someone at IFP put it together? I'm sure they would have a lot of Material lying around.
That J Gardner basically had to deal with a committee, on naming the
Books and I'm sure many stories, were changed during the writing
Process.
what was discarded ?
Why did Glidrose block Jenkins PFO? For quality? Janson-Smith signed off Gardner swill for years and engaged Benson....
Why were neither Amis nor Pearson allowed their sequel, the former at the height of Bondmania?
Why were neither Wood nor Pearson engaged in 1981 when there was evidence they could write Bond?
Did Gardner ever care for James Bond and was he only ever in it for regular paid work? For the former I refer you to his 60s Boysie Oakes works, his Boysie interviews, and in 1981 a Saab, a fit and abstemious JB, "James Boldman"....
Raymond Benson: computer games writers can be fanatical James Bond fans; they may be cheap but it doesn't mean they can write...
The Moneypenny Diaries? Why? Who needed them? Who COMMISSIONED them?
Faulks - did the IFP ladies HAVE to publish what he dumped on them?
Deaver. An American. A totally new James Bond. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Boyd. Stop being fooled by the liberal literary elite just because they now say they admired Fleming.
Against Higson. A stupid idea, but somehow it worked (as does Cole).
Who at IFP will ever tell?
With whom?
The more the merrier.