JAMES BOND
The name's Bond... you know the rest.
Everybody knows James Bond. I have loved Bond - both in films and in books - since I was in primary school. When I walked home from school every night I passed a second hand book shop and every night I was in there, seeing what they had. This will mark me as very old, but I picked up battered old copied of the Bond books (as well as Doctor Who and The Saint books) for 4p or 5p each. I read them over and over again, and though I've got lovely new snazzy copies of all the Bonds, I still have those tatty old copies I bought almost 50 years ago.
Never in my wildest dreams could I have thought I'd ever write for Bond - even unofficially - and yes, my Bond stories are unofficial and only on sale in Canada because Canada has a "death + 50 years" term on copyright, rather than the "death + 70 years" which most of the world adheres to.
In Paris, James Bond meets his match over appetizers and cocktails—with an aperitif of industrial espionage and chilly sadism. Off the coast of Australia, he learns about a whole new level of betrayal under the scorching light of a ball of thunder. In Siberia, he dreams of endless carnage while his fate is decided by one of his most cunning enemies and perhaps the greatest of his many loves.
And in Canada—where Ian Fleming’s work has entered public domain—James Bond finds freedom.
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond lives in this shadow space of copyright law: a collection of nineteen new, exciting, transformative James Bond stories by a diverse crew of 21st-century authors. Collected herein are new stories about Secret Agent 007, as the late Ian Fleming imagined and described him: a psychically wounded veteran of the Second World War and soldier of the Cold War, who treated his accumulated injuries with sex, alcohol, nicotine, and adrenaline. He was a good lover … but a terrible prospect.
He was James Bond.
And in Licence Expired, he’s back in action.
Introduction by Matt Sherman
• Foreword: The Bitch is Dead Now by David Nickle
• “One Is Sorrow” by Jacqueline Baker
• “The Gale of the World” by Robert J. Wiersema
• “Red Indians” by Richard Lee Byers
• “The Gladiator Lie” by Kelly Robson
• “Half the Sky” by E.L. Chen
• “In Havana” by Jeffrey Ford
• “Mastering the Art of French Killing” by Michael Skeet
• “A Dirty Business” by Iain McLaughlin
• “Sorrow’s Spy” by Catherine McLeod
• “Mosaic” by Karl Schroeder
• “The Spy Who Remembered Me” by James Alan Gardner
• “Daedelus” by Jamie Mason
• “Through Your Eyes Only” by A.M. Dellamonica
• “Two Graves” by Ian Rogers
• “No Mr. Bond” by Charles Stross
• “The Man with the Beholden Gun: an e-pistol-ary story by some other Ian Fleming” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• “The Cyclorama” by Laird Barron
• “You Never Love Once” by Claude Lalumière
• “Not an Honourable Disease” by Corey Redekop
• Afterword by Madeline Ashby
And in Canada—where Ian Fleming’s work has entered public domain—James Bond finds freedom.
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond lives in this shadow space of copyright law: a collection of nineteen new, exciting, transformative James Bond stories by a diverse crew of 21st-century authors. Collected herein are new stories about Secret Agent 007, as the late Ian Fleming imagined and described him: a psychically wounded veteran of the Second World War and soldier of the Cold War, who treated his accumulated injuries with sex, alcohol, nicotine, and adrenaline. He was a good lover … but a terrible prospect.
He was James Bond.
And in Licence Expired, he’s back in action.
Introduction by Matt Sherman
• Foreword: The Bitch is Dead Now by David Nickle
• “One Is Sorrow” by Jacqueline Baker
• “The Gale of the World” by Robert J. Wiersema
• “Red Indians” by Richard Lee Byers
• “The Gladiator Lie” by Kelly Robson
• “Half the Sky” by E.L. Chen
• “In Havana” by Jeffrey Ford
• “Mastering the Art of French Killing” by Michael Skeet
• “A Dirty Business” by Iain McLaughlin
• “Sorrow’s Spy” by Catherine McLeod
• “Mosaic” by Karl Schroeder
• “The Spy Who Remembered Me” by James Alan Gardner
• “Daedelus” by Jamie Mason
• “Through Your Eyes Only” by A.M. Dellamonica
• “Two Graves” by Ian Rogers
• “No Mr. Bond” by Charles Stross
• “The Man with the Beholden Gun: an e-pistol-ary story by some other Ian Fleming” by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
• “The Cyclorama” by Laird Barron
• “You Never Love Once” by Claude Lalumière
• “Not an Honourable Disease” by Corey Redekop
• Afterword by Madeline Ashby
November 22, 1963.
Dallas, Texas.
A motorcade drives along a wide Dallas street. A lone gunman sets his sights on the politician in the car...
James Bond’s mission has led him to the United States where he works with the CIA to discover a conspiracy which reaches all the way around the world and may lead to billions of deaths.
As the world lurches closer to nuclear armageddon, Bond crosses America from Dallas to New York to Miami, before a desperate return to Europe and an intrusion into a hostile Soviet Union to avoid another assassination.
Only James Bond can walk through the fire to save the world from burning....
A collection of short stories in which 007 James Bond and his allies face the greatest threats to Britain since the end of World War 2.
M, Moneypenny, Q-Branch, the Chief of Staff... every branch of the Secret Service is needed as the country comes under attack.
The missions take James Bond across the word, but the greatest threat must ultimately be faced at home as 007 risks everything for Queen and Country.
For Queen and Country is an unofficial Bond anthology and was published in Canada where Bond is a public domain character in 2020.
NO GOOD DEEDFIRST AND LASTA BRIEF CONFESSION OF PAINSINS OF THE FATHERTHE ENEMY WITHINNEVER LOOK BACKQUEEN AND COUNTRY
M, Moneypenny, Q-Branch, the Chief of Staff... every branch of the Secret Service is needed as the country comes under attack.
The missions take James Bond across the word, but the greatest threat must ultimately be faced at home as 007 risks everything for Queen and Country.
For Queen and Country is an unofficial Bond anthology and was published in Canada where Bond is a public domain character in 2020.
NO GOOD DEEDFIRST AND LASTA BRIEF CONFESSION OF PAINSINS OF THE FATHERTHE ENEMY WITHINNEVER LOOK BACKQUEEN AND COUNTRY