Fleming Bond Chronology

As a partner to Python's excellent release date thread, here's the chronology of Fleming's Bond stories.

CASINO ROYALE: May-June, 1951
LIVE AND LET DIE: January-February, 1952
MOONRAKER: May, 1953
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: July-August, 1953
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: June-August, 1954
DOCTOR NO: February-March, 1956
GOLDFINGER: April-June, 1957
RISICO: October, 1957
QUANTUM OF SOLACE: February, 1958
THE HILDEBRAND RARITY: April, 1958
FROM A VIEW TO A KILL: May, 1958
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: September-October, 1958
THUNDERBALL: May-June, 1959
OCTOPUSSY: July, 1960
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS: September-October, 1960
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY: June, 1961
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, Chapter 1-5: September, 1961
007 IN NEW YORK: End of September, 1961
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME: October, 1961
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE: November, 1961-January 1, 1962
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: August, 1962-April, 1963
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: November, 1963-February, 1964

Side note: COLONEL SUN is set in September of 1964 or 1965, and of course DEVIL MAY CARE is 1967.

We need one for the films.

^if you ignore the years and the change of the actors:
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
From Dr No to Thunderball
OHMSS
YOLT
DAF
From LALD to DAD

Or, in different timelines:
The first era: Connery/Lazenby/Moore
Second era: Dalton/Brosnan
Third era: Craig

Walecs wrote:

^if you ignore the years and the change of the actors:
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
From Dr No to Thunderball
OHMSS
YOLT
DAF
From LALD to DAD

No. *facepalm*

No.

You really think OHMSS is before YOLT just because of that "Blofeld doesn't recognize Bond" thing? So, what, Bond clearly meeting Blofeld for the very first time in YOLT and, not, say, immediately trying to kill him for Tracy mean anything?

Also, the Craig films are not prequels. For, like, a million reasons.

Seems fans took Mendes's comment about SF taking place before DN in a spiritual sense too literally. Even if you just focus on it being a prequel to that one specific Bond film, it still doesn't add up not only because it ain't 1962, but then there the new M being Gareth Mallory instead of Miles Messervy. The Q in SF not being Major Boothroyd. Did Moneypenny pull a Michael Jackson and picked up a North American accent before DN?

No, it's a reboot and it's making its own unique path for Bond's adventures in the 21st century.

Python wrote:

Seems fans took Mendes's comment about SF taking place before DN in a spiritual sense too literally. Even if you just focus on it being a prequel to that one specific Bond film, it still doesn't add up not only because it ain't 1962, but then there the new M being Gareth Mallory instead of Miles Messervy. The Q in SF not being Major Boothroyd. Did Moneypenny pull a Michael Jackson and picked up a North American accent before DN?

No, it's a reboot and it's making its own unique path for Bond's adventures in the 21st century.

Also Judi Dench only makes sense if it's a reboot.

Fairbairn-Sykes wrote:

Walecs wrote:

^if you ignore the years and the change of the actors:
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
From Dr No to Thunderball
OHMSS
YOLT
DAF
From LALD to DAD

No. *facepalm*

No.

You really think OHMSS is before YOLT just because of that "Blofeld doesn't recognize Bond" thing? So, what, Bond clearly meeting Blofeld for the very first time in YOLT and, not, say, immediately trying to kill him for Tracy mean anything?

Also, the Craig films are not prequels. For, like, a million reasons.

I don't believe a single s*** of what I wrote, actually. In my headcanon, every Bond actor is a different a person, or, if anything, it could work as three different persons (the three eras thing).