More 007
#1
Posted 20 June 2002 - 08:11 PM
#2
Posted 20 June 2002 - 08:54 PM
#3
Posted 20 June 2002 - 09:34 PM
How do people feel about the Bond books become a series of paperbacks ala Star Trek and Star Wars with multiple authors and maybe 3 books a year? Again, I don't see Glidrose doing anything so ambitious, but it's an interesting idea.
#4
Posted 20 June 2002 - 09:57 PM
I don't think it would necessarily be bad if three novels come out a year, by different authors...as long as there is some continuity (ie, Bond doesn't have a girlfriend in one, but in the other two he does).
As for authors...I have someone in mind...close to my heart...but I won't get catty about it and name names.
-- Xenobia
#5
Posted 20 June 2002 - 10:09 PM
#6
Posted 20 June 2002 - 10:18 PM
#7
Posted 20 June 2002 - 10:29 PM
#8
Posted 20 June 2002 - 10:31 PM
Yeah, were did that post go? I was responding to your idea in my own post. I didn't delete it.Originally posted by Hardyboy
Err. . .what happened to my post, where I suggested multiple authors?
#9
Posted 21 June 2002 - 03:58 AM
Zencat
Which is one of the reasons I get so hot when fans bash Benson because I truly believe the future of the books rests with fan support of the current author.
Never thought of that, I'll try and suppress my emotions. But if Glidrose hires someone really bad, and then the fans support him, he and Glidrose'll think the books are good, and keep pumping out books that the public doesn't like. But then again, I'd trust Glidrose not to choose a bad author. (There, I said something nice about Benson!)
#10
Posted 22 July 2002 - 09:50 PM
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How do people feel about the Bond books become a series of paperbacks ala Star Trek and Star Wars with multiple authors and maybe 3 books a year? Again, I don't see Glidrose doing anything so ambitious, but it's an interesting idea. [/B]
I wouldn't mind seeing something like that, in fact, when I first wanted to read a Bond novel, I thought for some reason that that was how they did it. If they do adopt a system like this, I'd like to see the books tie in with the movies rather than Fleming's books. The reason is that I was re-reading Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor last week (can't wait for Red Rabbit next week ), and thought how odd and unnatural it would be to have some other guy in a decade continuing the adventures of John Clark and Jack Ryan. Also, being in the movie Bond, we'd probably get to see the return of Blofeld that way and what really happened to him.
Though I've no problem with Benson's line of books, and TMWTRT especially has given me faith in his Bond writing abilities, so at the moment, there is no need to fix what's not broken.
#11
Posted 24 July 2002 - 01:42 PM
#12
Posted 20 August 2002 - 11:57 AM
And someonen mentioned a women in charge of Glidrose... Sorry to dissapoint you, but currently there are two. Fleming's neices.
#13
Posted 20 August 2002 - 12:11 PM
#14
Posted 20 August 2002 - 04:21 PM
Only joking.