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Old 06-15-2011, 01:53 AM   #79
Harper Kingsley
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Originally Posted by solitarywolf View Post
Is it me because I have read so many and have a sense of what the character should be or is it the authors that try to be Fleming and just don't get it?
It's that way with most series when someone else takes over for the original author.

Examples: Robert Aspirin, Frank Herbert, H. Beam Piper, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton

Even if the new author does a good job, knowing the original author is dead and never got to complete their vision kind of ruins the mood. Plus, with something like James Bond, I think that not being from the same era as Ian Fleming makes it hard to get that same feel.

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