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Is there room for a Literary James Bond Continuation c.1966-2015 history book?

DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
edited June 2015 in Literary 007 Posts: 18,343
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.

Comments

  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    It would make for some great reading. :)
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    I'd love it, honestly. Commission someone to write it. Right now. I don't care if they'd be lost at sea.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2015 Posts: 18,343
    I'd happily make a stab at writing it if IFP is reading this. :D
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,999
    If such a book were published, i'd buy it. :)
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
    If such a book were published, i'd buy it. :)

    I would as well.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    As would I. I'd be fascinated to learn the whole behind-the-scenes history of the continuation novels: why certain authors were chosen, which authors were considered or desired but couldn't be recruited, why certain creative choices were made, the extent to which the success of the films impacted the directions of the continuation novels, each author's thoughts on following in the footsteps of Fleming. If done properly, this could be one enormously enlightening and entertaining book.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    If you write it, I will read it.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited October 2020 Posts: 18,343
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    If you write it, I will read it.

    Thank you, kind sir!

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