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It’s sometimes said that the Bond films live thirty seconds into the future, and A View to a Kill is no exception. Michael G Wilson first eyed Silicon Valley and the quake coast with wilder notions—harnessing Halley’s Comet for deniable chaos or sabotaging particle work at Berkeley—before settling on the ‘Main Strike’ plan. But what eventually made the cut was cleaner and colder: a tech-age gambit set against fault lines and market share, delivered as Roger Moore’s swansong. It keeps Bond poised between geology and greed, the future pressing in from both sides.
Beyond the films, the canon widens. New novels put Q and Felix Leiter centre stage, while The Killing Zone lingers as the odd curiosity—the only unofficial Bond novel to slip into mainstream print.
In this issue
- Zorin’s Industry early story concepts and treatments for A View To A Kill
- In With a Bullet at 40 Moore’s 007th adventure stands out from the crowd
- The Killing Zone James Bond’s unauthorised bloodbath
- Back to Terra Ferma For Your Eyes Only’s Luigi Ferrara on filming in the alps with Moore
- Missing in Action how The World Is Not Enough’s pre-titles might have looked
- The Art, or Craft, of Writing Thrillers Fleming’s 1962 lecture rediscovered
