Ian Fleming Publications era and was published on 28 May 2011. On 11 April 2012 it was announced that William Boyd would write the next James Bond novel, entitled "Solo", set at the end of the 1960s. The novel was released in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2013, and in the United States and Canada on 8 October 2013. Written by the pseudonymous R. D. Mascott, it was the first James Bond related book not written by Ian Fleming to be published after Fleming's death. To this day, Ian Fleming Publications has never disclosed or confirmed the author's identity. Written by Fleming's
The James Bond Dossier "The James Bond Dossier" includes most of the Bond fiction cycle, excepting "Octopussy and The Living Daylights" (1966), the final collection of 007 short stories, which was published after the "Dossier". Kingsley Amis's argument is that the Bond novels are substantial and complex works of fiction, and certainly not, as Ian Fleming's critics said, 'a systematic onslaught on everything decent and sensible in modern life'. He viewed them as popular literature, akin to that of the Science Fiction texts he critiqued in "New Maps of Hell" (1960). Although written in Amis's usual accessible, light-hearted style, "The James Bond Dossier" is