Author Mark Edlitz, who has written books about the 007 film series, is coming out with an examination of James Bond continuation novels, according to the MI6-HQ website.
The book is titled James Beyond: Beyond Fleming. Ian Fleming’s final Bond novel was The Man With the Golden Gun published in 1965, a year after the author died.
The Fleming estate commissioned Kingsley Amis (whose Colonel Sun continuation novel had bits included in 2015’s SPECTRE). Other 007 continuation authors included John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and others.
Aside from the bits from Colonel Sun, Eon Productions (which produces the Bond films) has avoided the continuation novels. Even then, Eon provided “the estate of Kingsley Amis” a credit deep in the end titles of SPECTRE.
MI6-HQ said Edlitz’s book will be published later in December.
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I can do a mini version of the book
The initial
Kingsley Amis and John Pearson efforts are very good, especially the Pearson Authorized Biography, which is double-plus excellent!
The 14 novelJohn Gardner series is highly readable. Same with Raymond Benson’s 6 novels.
The Charlie Higson 5 Young Bonds are very meh. Readable but really did we need these?
The three Moneypenny Diaries books are all excellent. Good little 3 pak bringing Bond right up to his retirement years.
Sebastien Faulks one book is readable OK. Same for the William Boyd entry, Solo. The one-off Deaver effort though is the first toss-in-the dump entry.
Steve Cole’s 4 Young Bonds are very good. Much better than Higson’s efforts, as Cole’s Young Bond is older, thus more believable.
The 3 recent Horowitz books are all pretty bad. Not horrible but still pretty awful.
As for the most recent Sherwood and Higson releases, send them straight to the dumpster and set on 🔥.
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