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Originally Posted by solitarywolf
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?
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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.