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As with most of Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories, You Only Live Twice begins in medias res, but for the...

The opening chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is called “Seascape with Figures”, and it’s hard to think of...

Ian Fleming doesn’t want you to read The Spy Who Loved Me. He blocked a paperback edition being published during...

Nine books into the series, Ian Fleming gains a sense of humour. The James Bond novels up to this point...

The eighth book in the original Ian Fleming run of James Bond adventures differs from the previous seven. Instead of...

Goldfinger marks a concerted effort by Ian Fleming to humanise his literary spy, James Bond. Despite what some say about...

I should like Willow. In fact, I should love Willow. It’s fantasy from the mind of George Lucas, back from...

Keeping Bond’s fate a mystery after the cliffhanger ending of From Russia with Love, Dr No begins with M arriving...

Diamonds Are Forever's greatest, though far from sole, flaw was its villains. Unmemorable, underdeveloped, not scary, and nothing but cheesy...

By page 33 of Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond is already undercover as Peter Franks in an operation to disassemble...

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