Patrick,
Re your comment below:
> I still can't understand why the producers of
this
> rediculously successful franchise don't do
these
> stories in historical perspective. Set during the
cold
> war in the 1950s and early 60s, as they were
written,
> would add such a sense of class to a franchise
which
> has become, let's face it, a parody of
itself.
Interesting that you should say so. Raymond Benson, who wrote
nine Bond pastiches for the Fleming estate after John Gardner
gave the gig up, has suggested that Bond is as tied to the
Cold War era as Sherlock Holmes is to the Victorian era, and
he would have liked to do his novels as historicals had the
owners of the property allowed him to.
JIM DOHERTY
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