He also did not like Connery, or the Fleming novels.

The book was dedicated to "gentle reader, William Plomer", the editor of a number of the Fleming novels.

The Fleming novels stuck with a more realistic vision of global espionage.

Dalton tried to make a serious, "down to earth" Bond, closer to the Fleming novels.

In 1991, the Permanent Press will issue a new Fleming novel and a new collection of short stories.

I personally would love to see a Bond film which returned the agent to his original late 50s/early 60s heyday, the era of the Fleming novels.

Benson describes this personality as a natural continuation of the Bond developed in the final three Fleming novels.

Updating the time frame to the 1980s, Gardner's series picks up the career of James Bond some years after the Fleming novels ended.

Leiter was not present in the Fleming novel, but the writers added the character to the film.

According to Griswold, the Fleming novels take place between around May 1951, to February 1964, by which time Bond was aged 42.