Moonraker

Moonraker is the third James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. It was published in 1955. In 1956, Bob Holness provided the voice of Bond in a South African radio adaptation. Fleming's novel was later adapted again as the eleventh film in the official James Bond series of films by EON Productions in 1979 and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the British Secret Service Agent, Commander James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

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The film is mostly an entirely new adventure using only Fleming's character Sir Hugo Drax. The screenplay was written by Christopher Wood who had previously co-wrote and novelised the screenplay for the previous film, The Spy Who Loved Me. Likewise, Moonraker was novelised in 1979 by Christopher Wood.

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The title comes from "moonraker", a synonym for moonsail, the highest sail carried by sailing ships.

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James Bond: James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced "double-oh seven"), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis, John Pe...

Novel: A novel (from French nouvelle, "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose. Down into the 18th century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances—epic-length works about love and adventures. Having become one of the major literary genr...

Ian Fleming: Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the children's story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....

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