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
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
This week’s novel, You Only Live Twice is a significant one for me, for a bunch of reasons: One, I think it may be Fleming’s best novel (not necessarily his best BOND novel, which I’ll elaborate upon shortly). Two, it was the last Bond novel published while Fleming was still
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