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Thanks for the advice. Will check it out.
Thanks for the information.
My pleasure. Enjoy!
I also read the two Christopher Wood novelizations, and Gardner's LTK novelization.
Great post draggers. Colonel Sun is probably must read beyond Fleming, for the reasons you mention.
I would add the Pearson book too, the James Bond Authorized biography.Pearson also authored a respected Fleming biography.
Pearson picks up Bond in 1973, still very much in the Fleming timeline, and fills in some of Bonds hstory, working with the scraps of info Fleming gave us, whilst sending the semi-retired Bond off on a fresh mission especially suited to his talents and past history.
Pearson also runs with the Fleming mischievouness, originally floated in YOLT, that he Fleming was commissioned to write the Bond novels as a disinformation, counter-intelligence opp against the Soviets.
For this book at least we can believe that Bond really does exist and we are in on the secret.
It might have been more interesting to have done Colonel Sun as the follow up to CR , rather than a sequel. The Craig era could have been either filmed adaptations of the continuation novels or the remaining short stories. I'd have taken that over the story arc any day.
Agreed 100%. Does EON have the legal rights to just flat out adapt any of the post Fleming novels?
Smart.
Yes, one of the best things about the Broccoli/Wilson recent tenure is that they have gotten the rights to all of Fleming back. Fleming didn't make it easy on them, frankly.
And expect Eon to keep its IP exclusively and indefinitely. In the US at least, Eon will just draft off Disney, who will fight tooth and nail to keep its mid-1900s properties out of the public domain.
If Eon have bought up the other novels anyway then that’s not a problem at all.
Back to the topic: I’ve read Fleming, Colonel Sun, and the Christopher Wood novelisations.
I don t know about that. I think it has just become tradition, as with Tarzan. Copyright expired for that character a long time ago, but he is still referred to as Edgar Rice Burrough s Tarzan on whatever media platforms he shows up on.
In any event I think it's only fair as Ian Fleming is the creator of James Bond after all and all these films flow from his creative processes. I never thought it had anything to do with the continuation novels though as I believe this practice by Eon well predates the publication of the first of those (Kingsley Amis' Colonel Sun) in March 1968.
In point of fact, even the continuation novels from at least the John Gardner era onwards have followed this practice Eon started in the films, with having for just one example "Ian Fleming's James Bond in John Gardner's Never Send Flowers" adorn the paperback and sometimes even the first edition hardback novels.
I got those cheap off Amazon. "Pre-loved" (ahem)
They're pretty cool. Wood basically takes the plots of those two Roger films and gives them a Fleming tone.
He's actually surprisingly good at aping Fleming.
I never read the Young Bond series and again not sure if I am missing something. I have yet to read Col. Sun. I read Wood's novelization of Moonraker but not Spy.
This thread is giving me an itch to go back and read some of them again.
That's all.