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[Dr Niles Crane]

The thread about "thumping good read" set me thinking.

How many Benson's are there?

I know there is the 'trully stunning' Die Another Day
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough

Then there is the excrutiating High Time - Bond v Roland Marquis - To Kill

Double - Oh it had so much potential, but we take what we can get - Shot

Zero Minus Ten - Rather liked this one, escept for the rather strange and inaccurate bits about Australian Aboriginals not knowing what a 'car' was.

And the abysmal Facts of - wierdo Greek guys running around being all mathematical - Death

Don't get me wrong - I don't mind Ray's work (except for DAD which makes me want to track him down and grind him up into fish paste and that rotten decada book). He is definately an improvement on John's Amanda Hightower and that gastly book where James goes throught the Indian pain ritual.

And the 'thumpin good read' - Never Dream of dying (which I didn't know about).

Is that it?

[Icephoenix]

Nope, theres one more. The Man With The Red Tattoo, not to mention his short stories...but they are not in proper book form yet

[Dr Niles Crane]

Dear Mr Icephoenix

Thankyou very much - I had forgotten, but I believe that is the new one everyone has been going on about. Unfortunately we don't get to many of the Benson's down here in the antipodes.

Love Niles

Cold, but still rising

[zencat]

The Benson/Bond Canon:

THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION (1984)
YOU ONLT LIVE TWICE II: BACK OF BEYOND (1986) - role playing game.
BLAST FROM THE PAST (1997) - short story
ZERO MINUS TEN (1997) - novel
TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997) - novelization
THE FACTS OF DEATH (1998) - novel
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DOOM (1999) - short story
HIGH TIME TO KILL (1999) - novel
LIVE AT FIVE (1999) - short story
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) - novelization
DOUBLESHOT (2000) - novel
NEVER DREAM OF DYING (2001) - novel
THE MAN WITH THE RED TATTOO (2002) - novel
DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002) - novelization

Benson also wrote an unproduced stage version of CASINO ROYALE.

[Mister Asterix]

Let’s not forget his non-Bond books, Evil Hours and The Pocket Essentials Guide to Jethro Tull.

[zencat]

Yes...EVIL HOURS is actually a very good book. I haven't read the Jethro Tull book.

I'll edit the above and call it "the Benson/Bond Canon."

[Dr Niles Crane]

A Midsummer's night doom???

Oh Man

[zencat]

It was commisioned by Playboy. It's set at the Playboy Mansion during Hefs annual "Midsummer's Night Dream" party...if that helps. It is cool to see Bond in LA. Also, I've been to the Playboy Mansion so I can now count this as a "Bond location."

[kevrichardson]

I am impressed with Zencat's knowledge of Benson body of work .

[zencat]

I'm a major fan and a collector of the continuation novels, and Benson books in particular. I'd really like to do a Benson retrospective in the way Benson did a retrospective of Gardner's work for 007 Magazine in '95.

[Jriv71]

I'm sorry, was I the only one who read that? YOU'VE BEEN TO THE MANSION?!?!?!?!

[Blofeld's Cat]

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