The Science of James Bond
The Super-Villains, Tech, and Spy-Craft Behind the Film and Fiction
Published on 18. February 2020
232 pages
978-1-5107-4380-9 (ISBN)
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Spy-Fi Culture with a License to Kill
From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, James Bond is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Out-grossing Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the world's most iconic and international secret agent has a shelf life of almost six decades, from Dr. No to Spectre. As nuclear missile threats are replaced by a series of subtler threats in a globalized and digital world, Bond is with us still.
In The Science of James Bond, we recognize the Bond franchise as a unique genre: spy-fi. A genre of film and fiction that fuses spy fiction with science fiction. We look at Bond's obsessions with super-villains, the future, and world domination or destruction. And we take a peek under the hood of trends in science and tech, often in the form of gadgets and spy devices in chapters such as:
- Goldfinger: Man Has Achieved Miracles in All Fields but Crime!
- You Only Live Twice: The Race to Conquer Space
- Live and Let Die: Full Throttle: Bond and the Car
- Skyfall: The Science of Cyberterrorism
- And more!
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The Science of James Bond
The Super-Villains, Tech, and Spy-Craft Behind the Film and Fiction
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Mark Brake developed the world's first science and science fiction degree in 1999. He also launched the world's first astrobiology degree in 2005. He's communicated science through film, television, print, and radio on five continents, including for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, and Sky Movies. He was one of the founding members of NASA's Astrobiology Institute Science Communication Group. He has written more than a dozen books, including Alien Life Imagined for Cambridge University Press in 2012. Mark also tours Europe with Science of Doctor Who, Science of Star Wars, and Science of Superheroes road shows.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Spy-Fi Culture with a Licence to Kill
- Part 1: 1962-1977
- Dr. No (1962): Beware of the Black-Gloved Boffin
- From Russia with Love (1963): Bumping off Bond and Killing Castro
- Goldfinger (1964): Man Has Achieved Miracles in All Fields but Crime!
- Thunderball (1965): Making a Mint out of Crime
- You Only Live Twice (1967): The Race to Conquer Space
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969): Guns, Germs, and Super-Villains
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Bond's Battle with Weapon Wizards
- Live and Let Die (1973): Full Throttle: Bond and the Car
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1974): Notes from a Dying Planet
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977): A New Atlantis
- Part II: 1979-2002
- Moonraker (1979): Divining the Master Race
- For Your Eyes Only (1981): The Threads of Nuclear Paranoia
- Octopussy (1983): Political Science: When Two Tribes Go to War
- A View to a Kill (1985): Death to Silicon Valley!
- The Living Daylights (1987): Masters of War
- Licence to Kill (1989): The Chemistry of Death
- GoldenEye (1995): Star Wars and Space Forces
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997): Information Wants to Be Free
- The World Is Not Enough (1999): Black Gold Means Blood
- Die Another Day (2002): Second Suns and Artificial Daylight
- Part III: 2006-2019
- Casino Royale (2006): Tradecraft Science: Bond versus Bourne
- Quantum of Solace (2008): The Irresistible Rise of Corporate Power
- Skyfall (2012): The Science of Cyberterrorism
- Spectre (2015): New World Order of Spying: A More Fascist Future?
- Index
