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Originally posted by CSUSigEp
dude they cant do spinoffs of Bond, that's always a surefire sign of a downward spiral... 
just curious, does anyone know how many Bond books Fleming wrote?
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Thirteen, beginning with
Casino Royale in 1953.
The rest of the Fleming books (in order) :
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds are Forever
From Russia With Love
Doctor No
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only (collection of five short stories:
From a View to a Kill/Risico/Quantum of Solace/The Hildebrand Rarity/For Your Eyes Only)
The Spy Who Loved Me
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man With The Golden Gun
Short stories:
Octopussy,
The Living Daylights and
The Property of a Lady
All the film rights to Fleming's novels except for
Casino Royale and
Thunderball were sold to Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions. All titles (and their plots) have been used in some form or another.
Casino Royale was bought by Gregory Ratoff, and used it for the 1954 CBS
Climax Mystery Theatre presentation of
Casino Royale. When Ratoff died, the rights were sold to Charles K. Feldman, who made the spoof of
Casino Royale in 1967. The rights are now owned by MGM.
Thunderball is owned by Kevin McClory, who won a lawsuit against Fleming in 1963. It was originally one of a set of screenplays Fleming, McClory and Jack Whittingham collaborated on for a TV series that never made it off the drawing board. Eon Productions worked out an agreement with McClory to make
Thunderball on condition that he not make a competing James Bond film for 10 years. Several more years of legal wrangling ensued before McClory released
Never Say Never Again, essentially a modern re-telling of
Thunderball. He hasn't made one since.