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The last ten major changes to the site.
- 03/18/2024 - Can you say "Spy Smasher wannabe"? That is the opening to My Comments on today's entrant, , a very short (3 adventure) comicbook spy series from Down Under in 1946. I did not think very much of it but historically it was important as Australia was needing, due to rationing and legal matters, to produce its own content. Some were good. Some, like this one, not so much.
- 03/17/2024 - Okay, I got my Saturday and Sunday mixed up here so the child/young adult series I meant to add yesterday is here today. I know, I'm old!!! So today we add a very cute kid's series with the adorable name of . How this youngster got to be an agent in a futurist space agency way before he was old enough and trained is ... well, read my synopsis.
- 03/16/2024 - "I love an operative who eschews firearms because they 'are dangerous'." That is the opening lines of My Comments for today's entrant into the compendium. has three adventures penned about her by Brett Baker and I really enjoyed them. I think you will as well.
- 03/15/2024 - Today's entrant into the compendium is described as a 'biopunk' series. I had to look it up. That got me a bit intrigued. Reading the adventures of made me a fan - of her, at least. Very enjoyable character told in a very enjoyable manner. I hope we will get more of her.
- 03/14/2024 - Our newest member in the compendium, , is an ELINT expert. We do not have many of those. Now, it might seem that such an expertise would be fairly safe and not something many would be interested in reading about. Not so with Brannan as shown by the five exciting adventures penned by R. G. Ainslee.
- 03/13/2024 - Yesterday I added to the compendium a really enjoyable series about an operative created by author Eugene Lloyd MacRae. That fine writer also penned a series about a private investigator named whose cases stray into the spy-fi range often enough to warrant his own membership here. Same excellent storyteller - same excellent fun reading these.
- 03/12/2024 - Entering the compendium today is a Stopper. That is a first for me. Never had a Stopper before. This set of a half dozen exciting adventures are even known as The Stopper Files. They tell of the cases assigned Interpol agent , penned by Eugene Lloyd MacRae. What is a Stopper, you ask? Come on in and find out.
- 03/11/2024 - Today I welcome the adventures of , a British operative for an department known only as 'the Bureau' and I don't mean the FBI. This series of six novellas repackaged into two volumes is a lot of really enjoyable storytelling. I would have liked more but since a few years have passed since these came out, I think the six is all we will have. Mighty fine half dozen, though.
- 03/10/2024 - Spring Forward! It's that time of year. Having slept the same amount of time as normal and awoken an hour later, I invite to the compendium a television series from just shy of two decades ago. In My Comments about , I say that it is "an amazing, highly enjoyable romp of a spoof of spy-fi and sci-fi and, well lots of different -fi's". It is a lot of zany fun.
- 03/09/2024 - It is Saturday so as is my latest pattern, I offer something for the young readers. In this case, it is , a spy series about someone who isn't a spy. She sure wants to be, though, and this collection of 5 volumes of stories is a hoot that should be checked out by all young spy fiction fans - and those who just might be. Michael Broad is the author of these delightful tales.
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SPY FICTION!
Say the word SPY to most people and they will respond with James Bond,
with good reason as he is the best known of all fictional spies. With 20+ blockbuster movies over the last 40+ years,
along with the standard movie hype, virtually the entire world knows about 007 and his License To Kill.
Of course, James Bond is by no means the only spy in the world of fiction, just the best known. Who are the rest?
Who has his or her own license to kill, thrill, or chill. How do these agents stack up against each other? Who would
you want beside you in a car chase, in a knife fight, in a dark alley, or beneath the covers?
This site is dedicated to the many, many men and women who, at least in fiction, have defended our freedoms against all forms of enemies, foreign and domestic. Well, granted a few of them were just in it for the money and many were only after the excitement, and sex played a huge role in the motivation of more than a few. But still, their actions helped not only preserve our way of life (on paper) but also brought us, the readers, many hours of escapism and vicarious pleasure.
So, who are these people that I have slaved so diligently to present to you? They are the men and women of spy-fi about whom there is a series. Single-book characters need not apply. There has to be at least two books. Two's the minimum but the more the merrier.
Moreover, I have confined membership to the English language. If it wasn't put into English so I can read it, I haven't worried about it.
Each spy has his or her own page. Click on the "Characters" button to go to a listing page. Click on the letter the
character's last name starts with (or a more common moniker like "Death Merchant" if appropriate). That will take one
step further into the labrynth. Finally, select the character's name from the list and, voila!
Have fun!!