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

In literature, Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1962 ) depicts a French-Canadian Vivienne Michel as a clerk minding the doomed Dreamy Pines Motor Court in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.

* 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.

** 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 )

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.

" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

By Ian Fleming's widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, he had a daughter, Amaryllis Fleming ( 1925 – 1999 ), who became a noted cellist.

In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in Dr. No. Casino Royale co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.

Needing to name the previously-anonymous secret agent, the production team chose " Harry Palmer ", because they wanted a dull, unglamorous name to distance him from Ian Fleming's James Bond, the stereotypical flamboyant, swashbuckling spy.

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.

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.

In the 1960s, Todd unsuccessfully attempted to produce a film of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers and a television series based on true accounts of the Queen's Messengers.

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

Following its successful version of Dr. No, produced in 2008 as a special one-off to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, Eon Productions allowed a second Bond story to be adapted.

At the same time it backed two expatriate North Americans in Britain, who had acquired screen rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

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.

* Ian Fleming's James Bond is first brought into the world in Casino Royale.

Although she has a small part in the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond ( something that is virtually nonexistent in Ian Fleming's novels, though somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels of John Gardner and Raymond Benson ).

In Ian Fleming's first draft of Casino Royale, Moneypenny's name was originally " Miss ' Petty ' Pettaval ", which was taken from Kathleen Pettigrew, the personal assistant to MI6 director Stewart Menzies.

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

* Charon ( The Three Worlds ), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle

Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

Ian Carmichael starred as Wimsey in radio adaptations of the novels made by the BBC, all of which have been available on cassette and CD from the BBC Radio Collection.

* Node ( Well of Echoes ), phenomena in Ian Irvine ’ s The Three Worlds Cycle of novels

In the James Bond novels and short stories by Ian Fleming and others, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard.

Writing for Science Fiction Studies in March 1975, Ian Watson proposed the following chronology for the first six novels.

Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, Le Carré, Ian Fleming ( Bond ) and Len Deighton.

At the same time, the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming were adapted into an increasingly fantastical series of tongue-in-cheek adventure films by producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, with Sean Connery as the star.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

That film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone directly inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure based on the novels of Ian Fleming.

SPECTRE ( SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion ) is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games.

from the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming ) originally introduced in the DuckTales episode " Double-O-Duck " as the " Foreign Organization for World Larceny.

Rohmer's work had a strong influence on Ian Fleming, whose James Bond novels and their film adaptations further popularized the image in popular culture, like Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory.

Blofeld makes three appearances in the Ian Fleming novels.

The Nine Tailors was adapted for television as a four-part series in 1973, one of several adaptations of " Lord Peter Wimsey " novels starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter.

In 1965, Price became popular with television audiences for his performance, described by The Times as " an outstanding success " as Jeeves opposite Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster based on the novels and short stories of P. G.