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- From: spl@ivem.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
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- Subject: Re: "Moonraker" -- fact or fiction?
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:52:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.103655.11722@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
- >Sorry... it's all moot, since Ian Fleming did not write "Moonraker".
- >They had already run out of his stories by that time... ...
-
- Actually, Fleming did (or at least his clone). It was one of the
- original thirteen or so James Bond books. Kingsley Amis (??) took
- over the series sometime in the 1970s with, I think, _License
- Renewed_. I'm a little hazy on the exact dates and titles of the
- ersatz Bond books since I was well beyond puberty at the time. :->
-
- Of course, the movies after, say, "Thunderball" (which, in the book
- form was probably the most plausible plotline the Fleming ever
- hatched), bore only skant resemblance to the stories in the books, so
- _Moonraker_, the book, shared only the title with "Moonraker," the
- film.
-
- Somehow, I suspect that the sci.* folk are tiring of all this blather,
- so followups to rec.arts.movies.
-
- spl
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- frequently, Why not." - Joyce Carol Oates, "The Boyfriend"
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