BEER Group Read. Bond, James Bond

[John Bailey]

Was thinking about the Bond mentions today, mainly in relation to the
book's video game components. P does a good job bringing in most of
the influential games of the era and just before (Quake, Doom, Metal
Gear Solid) but as far as I recall omits Goldeneye, the James Bond
game whose engine is generally recognised as a tech leap that allowed
the kind of game the First Person Yuppie Shooter satirises. In any
case, the game knowledge of BE seems slightly more than you can get
from wikipedia-ing the time but about what an attentive parent of a
teen kid or two in the late 90s would likely pick up.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> is it Robin always askin' about the James Bond references in Bleeding Edge?
>
> Here is from a review of Willim Boyd's newest authorized book in the franchise:
> "For a character who, as Simon Winder noted in an insightful 2006 book, “The Man Who Saved Britain,” arrived to uphold British self-esteem just as its vast empire was breaking up, it feels to the reader like an uncomfortably neo-imperialist assignment."
>
> Think TRP thinks the Bond fantasy applies to these United States as well?
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