[Perdogg]

Right now I am rereading all of the Ian Fleming Bond novels. I am up to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I am saving the anthologies for last. Since I now have the Internet, my suspicions about Thunderball have been confirmed (I read it in 1989) that not only was Thunderball was written to be filmed as a movie but Fleming was sued and had to pay for plagiarism.

I have also learned that, like I felt 20 years ago, that there is some doubt that Fleming actually wrote The Man with The Golden Gun.

Also, I never knew of the controversy with The Spy Who Loved Me and how it was actually banned in some countries due its "graphic talk" about sex and the fact that the female in the book (It was also controversial that the book is told from the woman's point of view - The Spy being James Bond) had an abortion. Fleming made it so that the story could never be filmed and that Vivian Michael will never be a character in a Bond film.

[SunkenCiv]

Did Fleming write any of the screen adaptations? I thought that was mostly the work of someone else. Thanks P.