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In the 1950s and 1960s,
Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 â€“ 12 August 1964) was a British writer who is best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., an ...
, creator of the fictional secret agent,
James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors hav ...
, wrote a number of short stories featuring his creation that appeared in the collections '' For Your Eyes Only'' and ''
Octopussy and The Living Daylights ''Octopussy and The Living Daylights'' (sometimes published as ''Octopussy'') is the 14th and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kin ...
''. Since 1997, several more short stories featuring Bond or set within the official James Bond universe have been published by authors who continued chronicling the world of Fleming's creation. The majority of these stories have, as of 2008, never been collected in book form, unlike the Fleming works. There are five exceptions: "Blast from the Past", "Midsummer Night's Doom" and "Live at Five" by
Raymond Benson Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the author of the James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973. In primary sc ...
, "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" by Phillip and Robert King, and "Bond Strikes Camp" by
Cyril Connolly Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine '' Horizon'' (1940–49) and wrote ''Enemies of Promise'' (1938), which comb ...
which are discussed below.


Raymond Benson short stories

In the late 1990s, Raymond Benson, who at the time was the official novelist of the
James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors hav ...
literary franchise, became the first author since Bond's creator,
Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 â€“ 12 August 1964) was a British writer who is best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., an ...
, to write officially sanctioned short stories featuring the superspy. Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story collection along the lines of Fleming's ''For Your Eyes Only'' and ''Octopussy and The Living Daylights''. This, however, has yet to occur. To date these three stories remain the only pieces of James Bond literature that have never officially been published in Great Britain. Additionally, between 2001 and 2002, Benson wrote a fourth short story he planned to title "The Heart of Erzulie", but it was never published.


"Blast from the Past"

First publication: ''
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'', January 1997 issue. In publication order, this follows '' COLD'' and precedes ''
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''. Benson has stated that ''Playboy'' cut a third of the story for space reasons. The first Bond story published by Benson, "Blast from the Past" is a direct sequel to Fleming's '' You Only Live Twice'' and appears to exist outside the timeline of either Benson's or John Gardner's other Bond stories. Bond receives a message, apparently from his son James Suzuki (Suzuki's mother is Kissy Suzuki from ''You Only Live Twice'', now dead from
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) asking him to come to
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on an urgent matter. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered, having been being force-fed
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syrup. With the aid of an SIS agent, Bond learns that Irma Bunt,
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's henchwoman, killed James Suzuki as revenge for Blofeld's death (again in ''You Only Live Twice''). Bond ultimately kills Bunt, but his victory is hollow; he must live with having lost his son, and with the knowledge that he was never a real father to him. The name of Bond's son, James Suzuki, is taken from the John Pearson faux biography, '' James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007''. "Blast from the Past" is included in the 2008 omnibus release, ''The Union Trilogy'', which includes three additional Benson Bond novels. This makes "Blast from the Past" the first non-Fleming short story to be published in book form.


"Midsummer Night's Doom"

First publication: ''
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'', January 1999 issue. In publication order, this follows ''
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'' and precedes '' High Time to Kill''. "Midsummer Night's Doom" is a special story commissioned to help celebrate ''Playboys 45th anniversary. By Benson's own admission, the short story is a joke piece. In the story, Bond is assigned to attend a party at ''Playboy'' founder
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's Playboy Mansion in
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where
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secrets are expected to be sold to a representative of the
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. While there, Bond meets Hefner, who is aware of his mission and who actually provides Bond with several gadgets a la Q. Bond also has time to enjoy a quick romance with real-life Playmate Lisa Dergan, flirt with other Playmates including Victoria Zdrok, and rub elbows with the likes of actor Robert Culp and singer
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. Dergan has the distinction of being the first real person ever to be awarded the status of Bond Girl. (Several other Playmates are referenced by name in this story, but Dergan is clearly Bond's girl of choice on this adventure.) However, Benson stated in a letter to ''Playboy'' that Zdrok was also a Bond Girl in the story. Some sources give this story the erroneous title "A Midsummer Night's Doom", since the title is a play on
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's ''
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''. "Midsummer's Night's Doom" is included in the 2010 omnibus release, ''Choice of Weapons'', which includes three additional Benson Bond novels.


"Live at Five"

First publication: ''
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'' (American edition), 13–19 November 1999. In publication order, this follows the novelization of ''
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'' and precedes ''
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''. Published the week ''
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'' arrived in cinemas in America, "Live at Five" is the shortest of all James Bond stories, even shorter than Fleming's previous record-holder " 007 in New York". Running only a few thousand words, if that, it is a brief episode that sees Bond, en route to a date with a female TV news reporter, recalling how he once helped a Russian
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champion defect in full view of TV cameras. The reporter, Janet Davies, becomes the second real person to be a Bond girl, seen daily on Chicago's local ABC station Channel 7 WLS. "Live at Five" was finally reprinted in the 2010 omnibus release, ''Choice of Weapons'', which includes three additional Benson Bond novels.


"The Heart of Erzulie" (unpublished)

A fourth short story, titled "The Heart of Erzulie", was written by Raymond Benson in-between ''
Never Dream of Dying ''Never Dream of Dying'', first published in 2001, was the seventh novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including film novelizations). Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published ...
'' and ''
The Man with the Red Tattoo ''The Man with the Red Tattoo'', first published in 2002, was the sixth and final original novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's character James Bond. Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the Unit ...
'', but it was never published because Ian Fleming Publications felt it was "too much of a Fleming
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." Benson, himself, acknowledges that it was little more than a time-killer in the interim between the two book projects. The story has since been published in Benson's 2015 e-book anthology ''12+1--Twelve Short Thrillers and a Play'' with all references to James Bond removed.


Samantha Weinberg/Kate Westbrook short stories

In 2006, two additional short stories were written and published by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym "Kate Westbrook". These stories are part of
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series, an officially licensed spin-off from the Bond novels series focusing on the character of
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. In September 2020, both stories were republished as a free
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titled ''The Moneypenny Diaries: Secret Chapters''.


"For Your Eyes Only, James"

First publication: ''
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'' (November 2006). Set in September 1956, the story tells of a weekend Bond and Moneypenny share at
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.


"Moneypenny's First Date with Bond"

First publication: ''
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'', 11 November 2006. This story, set just after Bond's assignment to the 00 Section and before the events of '' Casino Royale'', tells of Bond and Moneypenny's first meeting.


Charlie Higson short story


"A Hard Man to Kill"

The original Young Bond short story "A Hard Man to Kill" written by Charlie Higson, is included in the companion book, '' Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier'', which was released by Puffin Books on 29 October 2009. An extract from the story appears in the paperback edition of '' By Royal Command''. It is the longest James Bond short story yet written.


Unauthorised works

Several stories published without sanction from Glidrose warrant mention.


"Some Are Born Great"

"Some Are Born Great" was first published in the 3 September 1959 issue of '' Nursery World'', later reprinted in the spring 1960 issue of
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's in-house magazine ''Now & Then'', and then reprinted again in 2012 by Cinema Retro's ''Movie Classics''. The credited author—J.M. Harwood—is the screenwriter
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, who subsequently co-wrote the first two James Bond films, '' Dr. No'' and '' From Russia With Love''. The story (which is less than a page in length) details an intense card game with Bond facing off against an unseen opponent, only to reveal in the end that it's a game of " Snap" and this is a prepubescent Bond playing against a nanny.


"Bond Strikes Camp"

Cyril Connolly Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine '' Horizon'' (1940–49) and wrote ''Enemies of Promise'' (1938), which comb ...
's short story "Bond Strikes Camp" first appeared in the April 1963 issue of ''
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''. Although a parody, the story clearly mentions Bond by name and code number. An expensive, privately printed edition of 50 copies was made by the Shenval Press in 1963. Soon after, the story appeared in Connolly's miscellany collection ''Previous Convictions''. Author, critic and Bond author
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compared the story unfavourably to '' The Harvard Lampoon'' spoof Bond novel ''Alligator'' by claiming that "Parodies have their laughter-value, but the laughter is partly affectionate, and the successful parodist is moved partly by wanting to write like his original by wishing he'd thought of doing so first. Mr Cyril Connolly no doubt doesn't wish this in regard to Mr Fleming; his 'Bond Strikes Camp', in which M orders Bond to dress up as a woman, ostensibly for purposes of espionage, and then tries to get him into bed, is much too far from the original, never catches the note, gets elementary details wrong. E.g. M is made to call Bond 'Bond'. This happened last in 1954 ('' Live and Let Die'', ch. 2). Every Fleming fan knows it's either 'James' or '007'."


"Holmes Meets 007"

Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under 2000 words - first published in ''
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'' on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.
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,
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' assistant, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes' Baker Street address. Holmes' deductive abilities impress M, who wishes Bond had the same talent. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a
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assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's
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and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes' narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF icat Watson and announces that Watson is an impostor, and none other than Bond's arch-enemy
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- the man who killed Bond's wife Tracy. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing
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into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than
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; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.


"Toadstool"

'' The Harvard Lampoon'', responsible for the Bond spoof ''Alligator'', published another "J*mes B*nd" story. ''Toadstool'' appeared in ''PL*YB*Y'', the 1966 ''Harvard Lampoon'' parody of ''
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'' magazine.


"License to Hug"

Will Self's story ''License to Hug'' appeared in the November 1995 issue of ''
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''. Bond goes to Holland to kill an IRA hitman involved in drug smuggling. This story, part thriller, part satire on modern life, also mentions Bond by name and code number. Sorrell Kerbel notes that "Self proves just as adept at skewering by mimicry the stiff upper lip style and macho substance of Ian Fleming's James Bond books as he is at pillorying the brave new world of
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(with its very own thought police) in which the 'Therapeutic Hug and Stroke' is the weapon of choice."


"Your Deal, Mr. Bond"

The title piece of Phillip and Robert King's 2002 collection of bridge-related short stories, ''Your Deal, Mr. Bond'', features a James Bond who is assigned by M to defeat a villain named Saladin. Bond impersonates real-life bridge expert Zia Mahmood in order to combat Saladin at the bridge table. The short story includes bridge game charts in a similar fashion to that used by Ian Fleming in '' Moonraker'', in which Bond similarly plays a high-stakes game of bridge against that novel's villain. The book, despite being issued by a major publisher and containing undisguised references to the Bond characters, contains no reference to Ian Fleming Publications, suggesting the use of Bond, M and Miss Moneypenny is unofficial, and rendering this story likely apocryphal. Its placement in the Bond canon, therefore, is unknown. The story contains a cultural reference to ''
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'', however, which sets it outside of Fleming's timeline. It should not be confused with the 1987 John Gardner Bond novel, '' No Deals, Mr. Bond''. The authors also wrote the 1996 pastiche compilation ''Farewell, My Dummy'', which featured bridge novellas, each one parodies a different author in turn: Jeffrey Archer,
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,
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,
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and
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.


''Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond''

On 1 January 2015, the original Ian Fleming novels and short stories entered the
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in
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and other countries in which the length of copyright remains at the Berne Convention minimum of the life of the author plus 50 years. As a result, it is now legal in those countries for the original writings of Ian Fleming to be republished, or adapted into other media, without permission of the Fleming estate or its agent, Ian Fleming Publications (formerly known as Gildrose Publications). It is also now legal in those countries for original material based on Bond and other characters and concepts introduced in Fleming's written works (though not those elements that are unique to Eon Production's Bond movies) to be published. In late 2015, independent Canadian publishing house ChiZine Publications released ''Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond'', an anthology of 19 Bond short stories written by various Canadian and non-Canadian authors including Jeffrey Ford, Charles Stross, A.M. Dellamonica, James Alan Gardner, Corey Redekop, Jacqueline Baker,
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,
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, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Karl Schroeder, Claude Lalumiere, Robert Wiersema, and Ian Rogers. The stories examine different stages of the character's life from childhood to old age. The book's introduction states explicitly that due to copyright issues, it is not authorized for sale outside Canada.Matt Sherman, "Introduction", in ''Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond'' (Madeline Ashby, David Nickle, eds.), Toronto: ChiZine, 2015,


Bond on the Rocks


Bond Unknown


See also

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