Tour de Bond: Octopussy & The Living Daylights (1966), and Post-Fleming

The last official release of the Bond canon was released posthumously in 1966. Originally a short story collection featuring only the two titled stories (which had been originally published in Playboy and Argosy magazines), later expanded in 1967 to include “Property of a Lady” (written for The Ivory Hammer, the

Read more

Tour de Bond: The Man With the Golden Gun (1965)

The Man With the Golden Gun was published posthumously — and there is some controversy regarding whether or not it was partially ghost-written from an incomplete manuscript, either by Fleming’s editor, William Plomer, or by Kingsley Amis (who would go on to write Colonel Sun, the first post-Fleming Bond novel

Read more

Friday Music

Yeah, I know — the whole “attempt at daily blogging” thing has sucked. Sorry about that — massively busy (as usual). At least you get Friday Music…. Here’s a song that some hockey-mom minivan commercial stole from the Pogues, so I’m stealin’ it back. (Well, OK, I know they didn’t

Read more

Twitter Feed

Blog Archive