** James Bond novels, the original literary works by Fleming, plus works by other authors after Fleming's death ( usually commissioned by the owner of the Fleming copyrights, a company now known as Ian Fleming Publications )

In the main, however, it was a faithful adaptation of the novel, Raymond Benson declaring that " Many fans consider it the best Bond film, simply because it is close to Fleming's original story ".

Mr. Lyon's body is entombed on the grounds of the original cemetery for the church, whereas Mr. Fleming's body is entombed in a small family plot on Fleming St. a road named for the founder, adjacent to Elm St.

Fleming's original novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the Daily Express newspaper and syndicated around the world.

A number of Bond scholars have noted the Lee's interpretation of the character was in line with the original literary representation ; Cork and Stutz observed that Lee was " very close to Fleming's version of the character ", whilst Rubin commented on the serious, efficient, no-nonsense authority figure.

Bond scholar John Griswold notes that in the original draft of the story, Fleming killed Leiter off in the shark attack ; when Naomi Burton, Fleming's US agent with Curtis Brown protested about the death of the character, Fleming relented and Leiter lived, albeit missing an arm and half a leg.

In 1962, Lee was cast in the role that The Illustrated who's who of the cinema thought would probably be his best remembered, playing the character of M, the head of the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 )— and the superior of James Bond — in the first Eon Productions film, Dr. No. A number of Bond scholars have noted that Lee's interpretation of the character was in line with the original literary representation ; Cork and Stutz observed that Lee was " very close to Fleming's version of the character ", whilst Rubin commented on the serious, efficient, no-nonsense authority figure.

The persistence of the series, despite these pallid copyings, is the ultimate tribute to the richness of Fleming's original invention.

The Globe and Mail critic Margaret Cannon said, " this isn't Ian Fleming's James Bond, but the eighth book written by John Gardner, the recreator of Bond, and it's a far cry from the original.

This was the first time an original Bond novel had been given a different title for American book publication, other than for reasons of spelling, since Fleming's Moonraker was initially published there under the title Too Hot to Handle in the mid-1950s.

The Man with the Red Tattoo, first published in 2002, was the sixth and final original novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.

Since the screenplay for the film had nothing to do with Fleming's original novel, Eon Productions, for the first time, authorised that a novelization be written based upon the script.

Since 1983, there have been numerous video games based on the official films, Ian Fleming's novels, and even original scripts created by the developer or publisher of the game.

A year later, at James Fleming's trial, Randy Fleming recanted his original statements, claiming that the police had forced him to lie.

interest in the arts, culture, society and history, most of Ms. Fleming's original event designs involve a great deal of historical and literary research, as well as extensive grass roots work with local art, historical, educational and governmental institutions.

* Galatea Brand, in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Moonraker

There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

Dr. No is the sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 31 March 1958.

From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957.

In 1960 Fleming's novel was also adapted as a daily comic strip in the Daily Express and was syndicated worldwide.

According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 ( which is also Ian Fleming's birthday ) to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia, Poland ( then Germany ).

Suchet performed as the voice of the villainous Dr. Julius No in BBC Radio 4's radio adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Dr. No.

The film starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, an additional character who was not in Fleming's novel.

), a 1954 television adaptation of Fleming's novel for the series Climax!

Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959.

Auric Goldfinger was described by Raymond Benson as " Fleming's most successful villain to date " and Fleming gives him a number of character flaws that are brought out across the novel.

To some extent the situation also reflected Fleming's own opinions, expressed in the novel as part of Bond's thoughts, where " her sexual confusion is attributable to women's suffrage "; in addition, as Fleming himself put it in the book: " Bond felt the sexual challenge all beautiful Lesbians have for men.

As usual in the Bond novels, a number of Fleming's friends or associates had their names used in the novel ; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from Sir John Masterman, an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during World War II ; Alfred Whiting, the golf professional at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, becoming Alfred Blacking ; whilst the Royal St George's Golf Club itself became the Royal St Mark's, for the game between Bond and Goldfinger.

Goldfinger received more positive reviews than Fleming's previous novel, Dr. No, which had faced widespread criticism in the British media.

The play was adapted from Fleming's novel by Archie Scottney and was directed by Martin Jarvis.

It was the inspiration for Ian Fleming's 007 novel Casino Royale.

* November: Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, a novelization of the film Die Another Day, bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels based upon Ian Fleming's character that started in 1981.

* April 13-The face of popular literature is transformed with the publication of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale.

" An aeolian harp is featured in Ian Fleming's 1964 children's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to make a cave seem haunted.

In Ian Fleming's 1957 James Bond novel Diamonds are Forever, Felix Leiter tells Bond " Nothing propinks like propinquity.

Fleming's third Bond novel, Moonraker, establishes M's initials as " M **** M *******" and his first name is subsequently revealed to be Miles.

The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

Rider is described in the book as having buttocks like a boy, which brought a response from Fleming's friend Noël Coward that " I was also slightly shocked by the lascivious announcement that Honeychile's bottom was like a boy's.

The second is an excerpt from the chapter on Arcadia in John Fleming's book Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order amid Chaos.

Julian Symons, in The Times Literary Supplement, considered that it was Fleming's " tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale ", that the author " brings the thriller in line with modern emotional needs ", and that Bond " is the intellectual's Mike Hammer: a killer with a keen eye and a soft heart for a woman ".

In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld.

Psychologically Goldfinger is warped, possibly because of an inferiority complex brought on by his shortness, in contrast to a number of Fleming's other over-sized villains and physically he is odd, with a lack of proportion to his body.

Once more ( as with Live and Let Die and Dr. No ) it is Bond the British agent who has to sort out what turns out to be an American problem and this can be seen as Fleming's reaction to the lack of US support over the Suez Crisis in 1956 as well as Bond's warning to Goldfinger not to underestimate the English.

Richardson picked up on two areas relating to the characters of the book, saying that Goldfinger " is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr. Fleming's museum of super fiends ", whilst, referring to the novel's central character, observed that " the real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish.