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

Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
edited June 2015 in James Bond Literature
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. :) -{
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).

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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I'd definitely read it -{

    Couldn't someone at IFP put it together? I'm sure they would have a lot of Material lying around.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Agreed it would be very interesting. {[] as it has been pointed out
    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.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I've brought this up before, but I wonder if there is any unused Gardner Material?
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Yes, it would be interesting to find out what was used and
    what was discarded ?
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Gardner wanted to call LR 'Meltdown' and NLF 'You Only Die Once'
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • David SchofieldDavid Schofield EnglandPosts: 1,528MI6 Agent
    You lot might want to read it but would IFP want to release it (consider how secretive they are) when the majority of the history of the continuations reflect poorly on them and their predecessors. Consider:

    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?
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    Those problems aside, I'd happily make a stab at writing it if IFP is reading this. :D
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    A joint Project? :)
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    A joint Project? :)

    With whom? :)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Could be several of us.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,865MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    Could be several of us.

    The more the merrier. :)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • dlb007dlb007 Posts: 30MI6 Agent
    I'd definitely be interested in this. For one, I would like to know what other writers were considered prior to Gardner getting the job.
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