Come along, Bonds.

[royalmarriage]

Couple of bits of James Bond news - firstly, I'd managed to forget that the new Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver is imminent - as in, comes out tomorrow (in the UK at least; looks like the US has to wait a couple more weeks). Well, I get paid on Friday, so - sorted. Kind of bizarre coincidence - when Sebastian Faulks' dreadful Bond novel was released, I was in Milton Keynes for a couple of days of training; and now I'm working here permanently.

The other news - all the John Gardner Bond novels are getting spanking new reissues - info here. Probably won't be getting most of them, as the only one I never managed to get originally was Cold, but I've got to admit the new covers do look rather nice. And some of my copies are falling to bits...

Comments

[thene]

I can't bear to read the new JB books - too fond of Fleming, for all he's a sexist, racist ass. Besides, Raymond Benson ruined one of my fandoms already even without me having any contact with his failprose.

[davidbrider.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of fond of the Gardner ones, particularly the early ones - they were some of earliest experiences of Bond novels, I think I'd read his first three or four before reading all the Fleming ones.

Kind of curious - which fandom did Benson ruin for you? I only really know of him from his Bond novels...

[thene]

Benson got commissioned to write the two Metal Gear Solid novels, and the results were unbearably terrible. I haven't read them, only seen some amazingly flat excerpts. What hurts is having read fan projects by really talented people, and then seeing this 'official' one turn out to be such a hackjob.