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Why? I don't get the appeal of this. Why Q? Why not create a new detective who has a fondness for gadgets and is intelligent? Those are my first thoughts when I received the email from IFP. I will need to learn more before making a final decision.
But you know the answer, surely? It's IP, and the brandname association will help sales.
Cynical, maybe, but writing a new cosy detective novel even with a gadget-fond new detective could be called pretty cynical too as there are enough cosy detective novels out there! They want to make money, why not.
But enough of my sarcasm. Give me a Bond novel and a Bond film. That's where I'll spend my money. All of this feels like the literary equivalent of putting a Rolls Royce grill on a VW Beetle.
So that's how it is? Then you can look forward to Mattjoes: The Matt, The Legend. Foreword by Billy J. Mitchell.
Is he hiring a ghostwriter for that?
Not to mention the title is apparently warning of a negligible amount of menace. Very odd
Does this mean he won't return in future Bond books? This whole thing seems like a rather weak idea. Give me the story of M and how he/she rose to their office, heck give me stories of Bond before his secret service days. But to take Q and to have him operate out of Mi6 without his gadgets and solve mysteries? Does he go into business for himself? Q Investigations. Doesn't seem like a strong idea for a book to me.
I understand why IFP is going this route. They are trying to create other streams of revenue. I have been impressed that EON has been restrained and not greenlit a bunch of shows and movies about the supporting characters of the cinematic Bond. I don't think this book will fly beyond a one off.
So, MI6?
00Q returns in Eject Deceit
Unless in this universe they're making gadgets obsolete and going down the tech route rendering the Q of old useless.
If that's the case they likely saw potential in the first scene between Bond and Q in Skyfall at the Gallery.
While traveling to another planet:
Bond: Are you going to complain the whole way?
Q: Go on, eject me. See, I disconnected the eject circuit from my phone the moment we got into this ship. As you know, all of our vehicles are immune to such tampering, unless you have the code... which I do, because I'm me. Could we stop for a cup of Earl Grey in a few minutes? I feel I need a slight caffeine boost.
Bond: I can tell this is going to be some trip.
Q: You're free to leave if you want. I can take it from here.
Bond: Alright, then. (Leaves.)
IFP presents
Eject Deceit
Starring James Bond Quentin Quigley
I wonder if we'll see a bit more of the armourer side of him in this QOM novel. Wouldn't mind seeing more of that in the films, to balance out the gadgetry a bit.