Raymond Benson's timeline

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This timeline is a comprehensive list of important fictional historical events set out in Raymond Benson's 1997-2002 James Bond continuation novel series. Benson maintained a loose continuity with John Gardner's preceding novels; later explaining in interviews that, as far as character continuity was concerned, he had been given free lease by his publishers to follow or ignore other continuation authors as he saw fit. As to how his books fit in continuity, Benson stated, "My books aren't necessarily continuations after John Gardner's books. The same holds true for the writers who followed me. They've taken Bond and created little universes of their own."^[1]

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1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1943

Goro Yoshida is born in Japan.^[2]

1950s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2002

June: Kyoko McMahon and her family are assassinated in Japan using a deadly mutant strain of the West Nile virus.^[3]

References

↑ Edlitz, Mark (13th September 2020). "Raymond Benson's Lost Bond Play", The Lost Adventures of James Bond: Timothy Dalton’s Third and Fourth Bond Films, James Bond Jr., and Other Unmade or Forgotten 007 Projects (in En-US). Bowker. ISBN 9781735461618.
↑ Benson, Raymond [2 May 2002] (1 October 2012). "Chapter 4: Yami Shogun", The Man with the Red Tattoo, James Bond (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9781906772482. “He had been born in 1943, just in time for the climax of the war and the Occupation. His only sibling Yukiko came along a year later.”
↑ Benson, Raymond [2 May 2002] (1 October 2012). "Chapter 1: Final Flight", The Man with the Red Tattoo, James Bond (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9781906772482. “The drone of the plane’s engines reminded her of last night too, and the annoying whine of the mosquitoes. They were usually bad in the summer months but they had shown up in greater numbers this particular June. Kyoko remembered slapping at least three on her arm.”

[edlitz-1] Edlitz, Mark (13th September 2020). "Raymond Benson's Lost Bond Play", The Lost Adventures of James Bond: Timothy Dalton’s Third and Fourth Bond Films, James Bond Jr., and Other Unmade or Forgotten 007 Projects (in En-US). Bowker. ISBN 9781735461618.

[2] Benson, Raymond [2 May 2002] (1 October 2012). "Chapter 4: Yami Shogun", The Man with the Red Tattoo, James Bond (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9781906772482. “He had been born in 1943, just in time for the climax of the war and the Occupation. His only sibling Yukiko came along a year later.”

[3] Benson, Raymond [2 May 2002] (1 October 2012). "Chapter 1: Final Flight", The Man with the Red Tattoo, James Bond (in En-UK). Ian Fleming Publications. ISBN 9781906772482. “The drone of the plane’s engines reminded her of last night too, and the annoying whine of the mosquitoes. They were usually bad in the summer months but they had shown up in greater numbers this particular June. Kyoko remembered slapping at least three on her arm.”

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