I’m hoping it does, even if it’s subtle.
All we really need now is a Moonraker announcement from Dynamite.
Love this idea. Irma Bunt is very intriguing, but as Tiin007 said, Raymond Benson dealt with her quite nicely in Blast From The Past. Going after Colonel Boris makes a lot of sense. Now that Bond has proven his worth and fitness again having beaten Francisco Scaramanga, M can get his and Bond’s proper revenge on Colonel Boris and the Russians for what he did to 007 and tried to do to the UK government. Now is the time to keep the British end up, and Bond, James Bond, will no doubt be serving this dish ice-cold.
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Might be rights/trademark problem RE: Benson’s Blast from Past short story
Events of Colonel Sun begin app. 6 months after MWTGG.
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Good point. I’d like CS to be included as canon, along with AH’s books. Maybe Tweet AH, and see if he considers it as canon.
EDIT: Decided not to be lazy, and Tweeted the question to him myself!
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Go back even further. Le Chiffre’s killer. The assassin with the “crag-like face.” Pearson deals with it in Bond’s"biography" but wouldn’t A. Horowitz’s portrayal be ideal? Col. Boris sends the assassin to deal with Bond after the brainwashing and attempt to kill M fails,and to give the killer a chance to rectify his mistake of allowing Bond to live after the events of Casino Royale.
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That would book end the Fleming canon nicely.
And here is Anthony Horowitz’s response to my Tweet about Colonel Sun:
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Anthony has good taste given Colonel Sun is his favourite continuation novel. His response suggests we won’t have to worry about it being wiped, which is excellent.
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LOL. Yes, if you want something done then…
AH is always great about responding to fans. And I’m glad he’s keeping His distance with CS.
Horowitz is well aware how fans cherish their particular favourites. I think no continuation author aimed to actively contradict earlier works*. If it happens it does so by accident - Benson claiming Bond hadn’t owned a convertible, Gardner letting Bond drink tea or Amis putting him into a green suit - not to spite the predecessors. Also, with such a body of works now, it’s probably easiest to just let the continuation authors take what they need and ignore the rest. Chances are the respective readers haven’t read everything anyway.
*Pearson is another matter since his entire concept is a study of the ‘real’ Bond, not the romanticised version Fleming wrote. This Bond can have a brother and a traumatic early love affair with Oedipal undertones. This Bond could be even further removed, could be named Harry and wear glasses and a Woolworth suit, drive a Morris Minor and drink tea - only then the main character would be missing. Pearson balanced his Uber-continuation nicely with the canon, no small feat.
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I think for the most part every continuation author had their own continuity and their works exist within that. I think DMC and Solo both claim to be Bond’s first adventure since TMWTGG, ignoring CS. Which is weird as Solo takes place 5 years after Golden Gun. My head canon has it go TMWTGG (1964)-CS (1965)-DMC (1967)-Solo (1969).
Benson’s novels, if anything, fit more into the Brosnan’s timeline of the films as opposed to the novel timeline. Gardner has his own continuity for all of his 14 stories. Though it seems that LTK is non-canon to his storyline. Gardner is non-canon to Benson’s storyline. JBAM is non-canon to the Flemings. I think, at the end of the day, the true canon is what you make of it.
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Gardner’s Bond is Sir Sean’s Bond in NSNA after coming out of retirement being Pearson’s Bond.
I know I’m in the minority but before Mr Horowitz, Carte Blanche was my favorite continuation novel
Carte Blanche is one of my favorite continuation novels and I’m still bummed we never got a follow up.
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The characters have an incredible amount of authenticity in Deaver’s book. I really love it. I’d love to know what a sequel would have looked like.
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Given part of the USP of the previous two Horowitz books has been “unused / newly found Fleming”, is there a chance of more? And adaptable to take place after The Man with the Golden Gun?
(Since the better bits of the two very good books so far were the original bits, not too bothered either way but one does wonder if this has been triggered by having excavated some more. Or, alternatively, by the not-totally-cynical gluing it to the 60th anniversary of the film series).
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There are more of the those “original material by Ian Fleming” not having been used yet. Horowitz mentioned on a podcast (which might be on this thread somewhere) that it was Fleming’s pitches for episodes on a Bond tv series that had been found, a few of them became short stories, but there was quite a few that hadn’t been used elsewhere, so Horowitz took the one he liked best for a chapter, then did the same again for the next one.
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I´m a bit sceptical, though, about this “unused bits by Fleming”-enthusiasm.
It reminds me of “deleted scenes” and “never before released songs from the vaults” of performing artists.
Sure, sometimes there are hidden gems. Most of the time, though, there is a reason why they weren’t used.
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