"in the Fleming stories. Following the retirement of John Gardner, Raymond Benson took over as Bond author in 1996; as the first American author of Bond it was a controversial choice. Benson had previously written the non-fiction ""The James Bond Bedside Companion"", first published in 1984. Benson's first work was a short story, ""Blast From the Past"", published in 1997. By the time he moved on to other projects in 2002, Benson had written six Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories. His final Bond work was ""The Man with the Red Tattoo"", published in 2002. Benson followed Gardner's"
"Licence Renewed Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelizations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's ""Colonel Sun"" in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek, a G. P. Putnam's Sons imprint. The release of ""Licence Renewed"" successfully relaunched the Bond literary franchise, being the first of 14 original novels by Gardner until his retirement in 1996. In"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"James Bond filmography Commander James Bond RN—code number 007—is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-six films in total, produced between 1962 and 2015. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and skilled in"
"James Bond (Dynamite Entertainment) James Bond is an ongoing spy thriller comic book series by Dynamite Entertainment featuring the eponymous character originally created by Ian Fleming. It is licensed by Ian Fleming Publications and debuted in November 2015. Additional series and graphic novels are planned. In October 2014, Dynamite Entertainment announced plans to publish monthly James Bond comics as part of a ten-year licensing deal with Ian Fleming Publications in 2015. Warren Ellis was asked by the Fleming Estate to be the writer, and he requested Jason Masters be the artist. Their first six issue story, ""VARGR"", was announced July"
"character ... since the original novels"" and praised the removal of Bond's bigotry. John McCubbin, reviewing for SnapPow, criticized the comic's pace and Bond's lack of flair while calling Master's art ""the most impressive part about this opening issue."" Dom Reardon's cover for the first issue was re-used as the cover for the 21st issue of ""Bleeding Cool"" magazine, which was focused on war comics. James Bond (Dynamite Entertainment) James Bond is an ongoing spy thriller comic book series by Dynamite Entertainment featuring the eponymous character originally created by Ian Fleming. It is licensed by Ian Fleming Publications and debuted"
"Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"also now legal in those countries for original material based on Bond and other characters and concepts introduced in Fleming's written works (though not those elements that are unique to Eon Production's Bond movies) to be published. In late 2015, independent Canadian publishing house ChiZine Publications released ""Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond"", an anthology of 19 Bond short stories written by various Canadian and non-Canadian authors including Jeffrey Ford, Charles Stross, A.M. Dellamonica, James Alan Gardner, Corey Redekop, Jacqueline Baker, Richard Lee Byers, Laird Barron, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Karl Schroeder, Claude Lalumiere, Robert Wiersema, and Ian Rogers. The stories examine"
"continuation Bond novel; Amis had previously produced ""The James Bond Dossier""—a critical analysis of the Bond books—under his own name, and ""The Book of Bond"", a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective agents, using the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William (""Bill"") Tanner. For the pseudonym, Peter Fleming - Ian Fleming's brother - initially suggested ""George Glidrose"". Jonathan Cape rejected this name, claiming that it had no selling or publicity power. Markham was then chosen. Despite this, Amis's involvement as continuation author was not a secret; American editions of the book identified Amis as the author, though the main Robert Markham credit remained. Amis had"
"different stages of the character's life from childhood to old age. The book's introduction states explicitly that due to copyright issues, it is not authorized for sale outside Canada. James Bond uncollected and other miscellaneous short stories In the 1950s and 1960s, Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional secret agent, James Bond, wrote a number of short stories featuring his creation that appeared in the collections ""For Your Eyes Only"" and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"". Since 1997, several more short stories featuring Bond or set within the official James Bond universe have been published by authors who continued chronicling"
"funny moments. But this fine thriller-writer can't perfectly adjust down to the simpler genre, and the world-destructive plot is a waste of Gardner, without ever really convincing as Bond."" Novelist Jessica Mann said in the ""British Book News"" that ""Ian Fleming's James Bond books were never as crass as ""Licence Renewed"". Writing for himself, Gardner is intelligent and original. In this Fleming rip-off, he reproduces Fleming's faults without their saving charms, except that he has cut down on the sex and sadism. Fleming's plots were always preposterous, but they carried a crazy, unifying conviction. Gardner's is just illogical. And how"
"Bond novels, three novelizations and three short stories. After a gap of six years, Sebastian Faulks was commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to write a new Bond novel, which was released on 28 May 2008, the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth. The book—titled ""Devil May Care""—was published in the UK by Penguin Books and by Doubleday in the US. American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce ""Carte Blanche"", which was published on 26 May 2011. The book updated Bond into a post-9/11 agent, independent of MI5 or MI6. On 26 September 2013 ""Solo"", written"
"wife Evelyn, most of his estate was left in trust to benefit their four sons and their future families. His wife Evelyn would have a generous income from the trust unless she remarried, in which case she would receive a reduced amount of £3000 per annum. Evelyn never remarried and felt it was a ""bad will"". Valentine Fleming Major Valentine Fleming (17 February 1882 – 20 May 1917) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was killed in World War I. He was the father of authors Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming who created the James Bond character. Born"
"James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed to avoid confusion with Fleming's novel. It was released in 1979. British Secret Service agent James Bond, codename 007, must prevent Sir Hugo Drax's plan to murder the entire human race and then restart humanity from outer space. The screenplay of ""Moonraker"" differed so much from Ian Fleming's novel that Eon Productions authorised the film's screenwriter, Christopher Wood to write a novelization based upon the film, as he had done for ""The Spy Who Loved Me""."
"that her character was originally to have been named Gala Brand. Moonraker (novel) Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman"
"locations in the movies in the dynamics of the Cold War, with power struggles among blocs playing out in the peripheral areas. Other critics claim that the Bond films reflect imperial nostalgia. American conservative critics, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, saw Bond as a nihilistic, hedonistic, and amoral character that challenged family values. James Bond The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations:"
"Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and chose the name of its author for the hero of ""Casino Royale"" in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded ""as ordinary as possible"". Fleming wrote to the real Bond's wife, ""It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born."" He also contacted the real James Bond about using his name in the books, and Bond replied to him, ""Fine with it."" At some"
"had already been dead for four years. Hence its novelization had to be written by another author. Ian Fleming on the other hand had official successors who wrote contemporary ""Post-Fleming"" James Bond novels. During his tenure John Gardner was consequently chosen to write the novelization of ""Licence to Kill"" in 1989 and also the novelization of ""GoldenEye"" in 1995. John Gardner found his successor in Raymond Benson who wrote besides several original Bond novels three novelizations including ""The World Is Not Enough"". While comic books such as the series ""Classics Illustrated"" have often provided adaptations of novels, novelizations of comic"
"Moonraker (novel) Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman builds the Moonraker, a prototype missile designed to defend England. Unknown"
"James Bond 007: Service James Bond 007: Service is a 2017 spy thriller one-shot comic book published by Dynamite Entertainment, featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent character, James Bond in the leading role, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Antonio Fuso. The comic is licensed by Ian Fleming Publications and as such, spun off from the monthly ongoing ""James Bond"" series, coming out as a one-off special in the franchise. Presumably set after the events of Brexit, a word was received by MI-6 from an unidentified source that the newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Thomas was being targeted"
"of preposterous, cosmic story-line which might have occurred to Ian."" Traditional Bond elements such as M, Miss Moneypenny and Universal Exports also appear, though the story contains lots of sex, unlike other Bond novels. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, died on 12 August 1964 of a heart attack. His brother Peter Fleming, himself also an author and occasional novelist, was a director of Glidrose Publications, the corporate entity Ian Fleming had established to administer the Bond copyright. Donald McCormick describes Peter Fleming as ""level-headed"" and ""down-to-earth."" In October 1970 a retired 73-year-old bank officer - only identified"
"James Bond uncollected and other miscellaneous short stories In the 1950s and 1960s, Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional secret agent, James Bond, wrote a number of short stories featuring his creation that appeared in the collections ""For Your Eyes Only"" and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"". Since 1997, several more short stories featuring Bond or set within the official James Bond universe have been published by authors who continued chronicling the world of Fleming's creation. The majority of these stories have, as of 2008, never been collected in book form, unlike the Fleming works. There are five exceptions: ""Blast"
"James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit is a 1995 spy thriller comic book published by Dark Horse Comics that features Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond in the lead. Serialized in three issues, the story is written by Don McGregor and illustrated by Gary Caldwell, which also is the last Bond comic book to be published by the same company, before Topps Comics took over the publishing rights to adapt ""GoldenEye"" in 1996 with McGregor as the writer. A recent panic from a group of mercenaries cites an arms dealer known as Rifle as"
"in the attic, come over and I'll lend you mine."" The ""Los Angeles Times"" critic claimed that Ian Fleming ""would have cringed at the writing to be found in this book."" Despite this, Wood's novel became a bestseller, remaining on ""The Times"" bestseller list for some time. After the release of the novel, Eon Productions chose not to commission novelizations of the next few Bond films; not until ""Licence to Kill"" ten years later in 1989. James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed"
"Valentine Fleming Major Valentine Fleming (17 February 1882 – 20 May 1917) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was killed in World War I. He was the father of authors Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming who created the James Bond character. Born in Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Fleming was the son of Sarah (née Hindmarsh) and Robert Fleming, a wealthy Scottish banker and founder of the merchant bank, Robert Fleming & Co.. Fleming was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He married Evelyn Beatrice Sainte Croix Rose in London on 15 February 1906. Together they had four sons;"
"James Bond was created by 20th Century author and mentor to Fleming, Phyllis Bottome in her 1946 novel, ""The Lifeline"". Distinct similarities between the protagonist in ""The Lifeline"", Mark Chalmers and Bond have been highlighted by spy writer, Nigel West. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide ""Birds of the West Indies""; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that ""It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and"
"Bond Omnibus Vol. 2"", published in 2011. In 1967, the book was adapted into the fifth film in the Eon Productions series, starring Sean Connery as Bond. Only a few elements of the novel and a limited number of Fleming's characters survive into the film version. In 1990, the novel was adapted into a 90-minute radio play for BBC Radio 4 with Michael Jayston playing James Bond. The production was repeated a number of times between 2008 and 2013. You Only Live Twice (novel) You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel (and twelfth book) in Ian Fleming's James Bond"
"by Jonathan Cape, additionally, it is the only Bond novel with a shared copyright credit; Pearson is the only Bond novelist so recognised. The premise of ""James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007"" is that James Bond is based upon a real MI6 agent. Fleming hinted so in ""You Only Live Twice"", in Bond's obituary, that his adventures were the basis of a series of ""sensational novels""; illustrating this contention, that novel's comic strip adaptation used covers from Fleming's James Bond novels. Writing autobiographically, Pearson begins the story with his own recruitment to MI6. Already, the department had assigned Ian"
"Ian Fleming Publications Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. In 1952, author Ian Fleming bought it after completing his first James Bond novel, ""Casino Royale""; he assigned most of his rights in ""Casino Royale"", and the works which followed it to Glidrose. In 1956 Ian Fleming hired literary agent Peter Janson-Smith to handle the foreign translation rights in the James Bond novels. He was the literary consultant and chairman of Ian Fleming Publications until 2001. Today, the Fleming family-owed"
"the 1960s; he also managed to use a number of the cultural touchstones of the sixties in the book. Faulks was true to Bond's original character and background too, and provided ""a Flemingesque hero"" who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley. On 26 May 2011 American writer Jeffery Deaver, commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, released ""Carte Blanche"". Deaver restarted the chronology of Bond, separate from the timelines of any of the previous authors, by stating he was born in 1980; the novel also saw Bond in a post-9/11 agency, independent of either MI5 or MI6. Whilst the chronology changed,"
"00 agent, he would not have worked with her. With Bond returning to active duty, Scarlett moves off to her own operations as a full 00 agent. The central character of the novel is James Bond, the fictional MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming. Faulks modelled his version of the character on Fleming's version, ignoring the other continuation authors and the films; when interviewed, Faulks said that ""My Bond is Fleming's Bond—not Connery, or Moore or Craig, for all their charms"", going on to say that ""my Bond drinks and smokes as much as ever"". Faulks saw Bond as a"