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

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 an area of the literary Bond that I'm very interested in.

I don't think it's necessary because I don't think there is much to discuss - though I may not be well versed in it. For example, the stuff about the copyright issues with Thunderball warranted the book The Battle for Bond, and reading it was really interesting. I don't think there really is anything to report about the continuation novels, is there?

Behind the scenes history: they wanted money.

End of behind the scenes history.

I smell Brian. Write it for that audience of one, Brian (I encourage this knowing full well it will never be written).

Flush wrote:

Behind the scenes history: they wanted money.

End of behind the scenes history.

I smell Brian. Write it for that audience of one, Brian (I encourage this knowing full well it will never be written).

Yes, you are correct. Let's just brush away fifty years of literary Bond history with a soundbite, O Deity.

Let's.

Unless you write it.

Still knowing full well you won't.

Flush wrote:

Let's.

Unless you write it.

Still knowing full well you won't.

Perhaps you should write it?

Nah. One for your blog, such as it is. An idea safely imprisoned there, out of the way of the sane, in the realm of "not getting written".

Flush wrote:

Nah. One for your blog, such as it is. An idea safely imprisoned there, out of the way of the sane, in the realm of "not getting written".

So where is your work written then? It's just that you seem to be an expert in these matters.

I suppose Martin Amis is insane too, then.

And the author of the chapter from this book:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yqiyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=the+bondologist+blog&source=bl&ots=Y8Y_HaLNLN&sig=x1FwQuzfsI9RgPTXuQj77BXadEI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ENaUVcSuJ6e27AbujpeQAw&ved=0CCEQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=the%20bondologist%20blog&f=false

It seems I am in good company but Oh to be sane like you.

Searching for yourself by entering "the" and "bondologist" - oh Brian, bless you, you total loon.

The search for yourself in any other way will probably bring up results you don't want or can't handle.

No, I'm not "written" anywhere but I wouldn't begin to suggest that one very, very backhanded compliment from Martin Amis - amidst all the verbiage etc. - and a desperate searching for any reference to your moribund drivel, qualifies you as much either.

If someone is inspired by your suggestion, the problem remains that the only person interested in such a notion is you. That's not reassuring in terms of reaching out to right-minded folk. Sells one copy, to one lunatic. Not tempted to spend even three minutes researching any of it, if that's the only outcome.

Brian, you are an absolute hoot.

Searching was the quickest way to find it. I don't want to waste too much of my time on you.

And who are you exactly to sit in judgement on others? I suppose you will go and hide below Belgium...?

Who are you to decide who is a "loon" or not? Are you medically qualified now as well? What a talented man you are!

If someone is inspired by your suggestion, the problem remains that the only person interested in such a notion is you.

Just read that over again.

Yes, I am.

Never cross-examine unless you already know the answer, Brian.

Isn't it about now you usually go completely batshit mental (recognised medical term), accuse someone of being (and I quote, without searching) "a fucking abortion" and then leave, vowing never to return, only to do so under fifteen guises within an hour?

A cycle, but one where the wheels came off years ago.

Colonel Sin wrote:

If someone is inspired by your suggestion, the problem remains that the only person interested in such a notion is you.

Just read that over again.

Did so, and it's smashing.

Flush wrote:

Yes, I am.

Never cross-examine unless you already know the answer, Brian.

Isn't it about now you usually go completely batshit mental (recognised medical term), accuse someone of being (and I quote, without searching) "a fucking abortion" and then leave, vowing never to return, only to do so under fifteen guises within an hour?

A cycle, but one where the wheels came off years ago.

We only have your word for that of course.

I doubt very much that a medical professional of today would call someone a "loon".

Flush wrote:

Colonel Sin wrote:

If someone is inspired by your suggestion, the problem remains that the only person interested in such a notion is you.

Just read that over again.

Did so, and it's smashing.

Yes, I agree that it is smashing grammar.

Another quote for you: "Fuck off, he hinted."

Erica Ambler.

Oh, we have all sorts of names for the punters, many worse than that.

Please don't tell me how to do my job. I don't tell you how to stack the shelves.

Flush wrote:

Oh, we have all sorts of names for the punters, many worse than that.

Please don't tell me how to do my job. I don't tell you how to stack the shelves.

So you still use the term "lunatic" in modern medicine then? How novel!

I don't stack shelves either. What a condescending cuno you are.

British Vulture too.

Colonel Sin wrote:

I don't stack shelves either.

They're not still making you slop out the petrol station loos after all these years, are they? Maybe the shelves come after the next set of exams (I'm not sure how it works). Good luck.

Don't let anyone tell you that you're not a real winner.

Flush wrote:

Colonel Sin wrote:

I don't stack shelves either.

They're not still making you slop out the petrol station loos after all these years, are they? Maybe the shelves come after the next set of exams (I'm not sure how it works). Good luck.

Don't let anyone tell you that you're not a real winner.

The exams were done years ago.

The results were as follows:

Two university degrees.

Are you putting them to use, with these endeavours?

Remember - KitKats are best stacked vertically (but not KitKat Chunky - that would be madness).

Flush wrote:

Are you putting them to use, with these endeavours?

Remember - KitKats are best stacked vertically (but not KitKat Chunky - that would be madness).

By endeavours do you mean blogging or work (or both)?

Once again I do not stack shelves as a job but the advise is appreciated nonetheless.