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Born in 1908, [[Ian Fleming]] was a British author who radically altered [[Spy Fiction]] when he started writing.
During [[World War Two]], he served in an intelligence planning role with the Royal Navy, planning some very successful and some very odd covert operations (one, involving getting [[Nazi Germany|Rudolf Hess]] to come to Britain via an occultist, was cancelled when Hess defected to Britain anyway via his manic hallucinations). He planned an operation called Operation Goldeneye, the later name of his house and [[Goldeneye
Fleming never went on active service undercover, and some have attributed his Bond stories to being the product of frustrated fantasy, Bond living the secret agent's life that Fleming had had stolen from him. (Fleming was not unfit for field work; the fact was he was too highly-placed and knew too many secrets to risk capture.)
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Rather a notorious womaniser in his youth, he eventually settled down and married (although he would reportedly have the ocassional affair). In 1952, just before this, he wrote a novel that would change the world of fiction.
That novel was ''Casino Royale''. [[James Bond (
Fleming wrote 12 [[James Bond]] novels and 9 short stories, one of the latter being the source of the title for ''[[
He died in 1964 of a heart attack, the result of a 70-cigarette a day smoking habit (take that! you weenie salutists!!) and a love of liquor bordering on the full-blown alcoholic (he was known to down twelve vodka martini in an evening, each stronger that the one before). He died before fully completing the novel of ''The Man With The Golden Gun'', depending on who you ask.
He also missed ''[[
Who precisely inspired Bond is a matter of debate, although Fleming almost certainly included idealized aspects of himself. Somewhat of a self-loathing insecure fellow, he also included serveal 'bad' aspects of himself in his memorable over-the-top [[Bond Villain|Bond Villains]], especially (it's inferred) the perceived sadism toward [[Bond Girl|Bond Girls]] (which, aptly, are tyrannized by the 'bad' Fleming -the villain- and cruelly humiliated/abused, before being rescued by the 'good' Fleming, i.e. [[James Bond]]).
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