Comments on: 'My name is Maitland, Donald Maitland…' http://www.ballardian.com/my-name-is-maitland-donald-maitland Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/my-name-is-maitland-donald-maitland/comment-page-1#comment-1488 Simon Sellars Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:59:02 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/my-name-is-maitland-donald-maitland#comment-1488 Yes, that's an interesting point about Kingsley Amis; besides Colonel Sun, he also wrote a couple of Bond dossier-style books. But he went off Ballard when Atrocity Exhibition came out -- and funnily enough, there's nothing Bondian about that work. Yes, that’s an interesting point about Kingsley Amis; besides Colonel Sun, he also wrote a couple of Bond dossier-style books. But he went off Ballard when Atrocity Exhibition came out — and funnily enough, there’s nothing Bondian about that work.

]]> By: John Coulthart http://www.ballardian.com/my-name-is-maitland-donald-maitland/comment-page-1#comment-1489 John Coulthart Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:31:33 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/my-name-is-maitland-donald-maitland#comment-1489 One might even stretch the point (so to speak) and view the name Hardoon as a masculine equivalent of those authorial nods and winks such as Pussy Galore. Perhaps the Bondian dimension was something else about Ballard's work that appealed to Kingsley Amis, he being a big Fleming fan who even wrote his own Bond novel, Colonel Sun. One might even stretch the point (so to speak) and view the name Hardoon as a masculine equivalent of those authorial nods and winks such as Pussy Galore.

Perhaps the Bondian dimension was something else about Ballard’s work that appealed to Kingsley Amis, he being a big Fleming fan who even wrote his own Bond novel, Colonel Sun.

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