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- From: estrayer@netcom.com (Eric Strayer)
- Subject: Re: "Moonraker" -- fact or fiction?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.173323.29459@netcom.com>
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- References: <1hjhhgINN7q0@news.cerf.net> <1992Dec28.103655.11722@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1hn0r1INN1gf@network.ucsd.edu> <komarimf.725599396@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:33:23 GMT
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- komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Henry' Komarinski) writes:
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- >spl@ivem.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) writes:
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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... ...
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- Sorry, but Moonraker was the third novel written in 1955. The story
- is actually kind of close to what the movie made of it, with the
- evil Drax and a rocket bent on earthly destruction. I don't believe
- there was a Doctor Goodhead in the book however.
-
- >>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. :->
-
- >That's John Gardner who re-started writing Bond novels in the early 80's.
- >Very good books also. :)
-
- Correct. I think that so far all of the movies have been based
- on Flemming novels. Even Octopussy, but that was reaching
- insofar as it was a short story (probably a prospectus for
- a novel) and the flick only used one paragraph from the story
- and made up the rest.
- >-Mark
-
- >--
- >- Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
- >[MIME mail welcome]
- >Credo quia absurdum est - "I believe because it is absurd"
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