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[Swandy]

I have been reading Bond fiction since WAY back when. I just finished re-reading the Fleming books and will the be moving on to Colonel Sun (for the first time!!!!!.
Anyway, back to the question at hand. I have read a lot of Fan Fiction - short stories - that have been posted here and on the MI6 site, but have never attemepted any novels. Which are considered the best of the bunch? Thanks.

[clinkeroo]

If you're just looking for novels, and not shorts, I'd head back to the main page and head toward the fan fiction section. An obvious personal bias aside, the featured novels at CBn are heads above most of what is out there. It would also be worth your time to track down Ross Sidor's work.

[Qwerty]

http://www.commander...es/1731-1.shtml

All of them have high praise on the forums, and (personal opinion here) CBn has the best fanfiction on any site I've ever read.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Mr Clink

[Loomis]

"Mightier Than the Sword" by Evan Willnow, the nom de plume of Mister Asterix, is very good, too - I think it's available to read here on CBn somewhere.

[Qwerty]

Right in the main fanfic section.

[00-FAN008]

"Mightier Than the Sword" by Evan Willnow, the nom de plume of Mister Asterix, is very good, too - I think it's available to read here on CBn somewhere.

Agreed. This is a very well done short-story by Asterix that I reccommend you take a look at.

Off Balance is also one I would recommend. It takes a neat twist on the James Bond saga.

Heck, I recommend all the stories on the CBn fan fiction page! They're worth a read.

[Mister Asterix]

"Mightier Than the Sword" by Evan Willnow, the nom de plume of Mister Asterix, is very good, too - I think it's available to read here on CBn somewhere.

Agreed. This is a very well done short-story by Asterix that I reccommend you take a look at.

Thank you, gentlemen.

[Bond_Bishop]

Yeah, Mightier than the sword is the best here I think!

[marktmurphy]

Even though it's barely a paragraph, Jim's post in this thread ( http://debrief.comma...showtopic=22787 ) is the closest thing to real Bond I've read in years. Also, and I know you want full length stuff but it's really worth showing off, clinkeroo's recent short story (I'm afraid I forget the title) is an absolute corker too.

[Hitch]

I haven't read too much fan fiction so I can't say which stories/novels are the best online - but there are certainly some very enjoyable tales at CBn. Of those I have read, Jim's Just Another Kill, anything with Clinkeroo's name on it (especially Woman Under Glass at MI6's website), and Miss Geelhoed's Off Balance are the best, in my very humble opinion. Zing's stuff is right up there too. I've yet to read Mightier Than The Sword (which looks excellent) because I'm saving it as a little reward after I finally stuff my own story in a bag and throw it in the canal.

Anyone who posts fanfic on the web deserves a round of applause - we all do it just for the sheer fun of it - and CBn is particularly receptive to Bond story writers. If you've read a lot of Bond in the past, why not write a tale yourself? There's a thread in the fanfic forum here which has lots of donated fanfic titles just aching for someone to take them for a spin.

Edited by Hitch, 14 May 2005 - 05:06 PM.

[00-FAN008]

"Mightier Than the Sword" by Evan Willnow, the nom de plume of Mister Asterix, is very good, too - I think it's available to read here on CBn somewhere.

Agreed. This is a very well done short-story by Asterix that I reccommend you take a look at.

Thank you, gentlemen.

No problem.

If I am correct, you are working on another novel, right?

[Tuxedo wearing Bond]

I haven't read too much fan fiction so I can't say which stories/novels are the best online - but there are certainly some very enjoyable tales at CBn. Of those I have read, Jim's Just Another Kill, anything with Clinkeroo's name on it (especially Woman Under Glass at MI6's website), and Miss Geelhoed's Off Balance are the best, in my very humble opinion. Zing's stuff is right up there too. I've yet to read Mightier Than The Sword (which looks excellent) because I'm saving it as a little reward after I finally stuff my own story in a bag and throw it in the canal.

Anyone who posts fanfic on the web deserves a round of applause - we all do it just for the sheer fun of it - and CBn is particularly receptive to Bond story writers. If you've read a lot of Bond in the past, why not write a tale yourself? There's a thread in the fanfic forum here which has lots of donated fanfic titles just aching for someone to take them for a spin.

Yes, off balance is a really good fan fic(The best I've ever read), and it's hard to describe how frightening it is to post one of your own stories when you have such competition as that. The only way to undergo that feeling is to do that yourself. But finding out somebody enjoys it is a great feeling too and that's why I write fan fics of all sorts. I'm continuing to develope my fic "The pleasure of Death" into a story that is that of the actual novels. But as I said, it takes time and courage to do so. Therefore, every fan fiction writer deserves a round of applause.

[Joyce Carrington]

Yes, off balance is a really good fan fic(The best I've ever read), and it's hard to describe how frightening it is to post one of your own stories when you have such competition as that. The only way to undergo that feeling is to do that yourself. But finding out somebody enjoys it is a great feeling too and that's why I write fan fics of all sorts. I'm continuing to develope my fic "The pleasure of Death" into a story that is that of the actual novels. But as I said, it takes time and courage to do so. Therefore, every fan fiction writer deserves a round of applause.

I'm flattered. And you're totally right, posting your fanfic is a very frightening thing to do. But you get much in return. As long as you have fun writing you can't really go wrong.

[Hawkeye]

I concur with the others and also recommend as Clinkeroo has said, tracking down Ross Sidor's 2 bond novels. They are both on MI6, as is a good full lenghter by Andrew Hixson "Forever a Spy" along with his short stories, one of which will shortly be appearing in the latest CBn short story volume which follows the popular "From a Scream to a Sigh" collection.
hawk.

[Qwerty]

There is also an Andrew Hixson collection composed of six stories which I will be working on in getting onto the main page after the Fanfiction Contest is completed.

[Lazenby880]

Evan Willnow's Mightier Than The Sword is really quite magnificent - Flemingesque, tense and exciting. The opening line, "The face of a corpse fits like the wrong man

[Mister Asterix]

[quote name='Lazenby880' date='24 May 2005 - 15:20']Evan Willnow's Mightier Than The Sword is really quite magnificent - Flemingesque, tense and exciting. The opening line, "The face of a corpse fits like the wrong man