## Rational Bond?

* Author: u/ArgentStonecutter  *Emergency Mustelid Hologram**
* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3e2vl1/rational_bond/
* Score: 3

* Created: 2015-07-21T15:17:56

### Post:

Anyone done a rational take on Bond that leaves the role intact?

Closest I can think of is _The Jennifer Morgue_ which is more a delicious abuse of the trope.

### Comments:

> **u/alexanderwales** [+3]  *Time flies like an arrow* (14 minutes later)
> 
> *The Jennifer Morgue* is definitely one I'd recommend. Also check out [*Ryan McAdamis Saves the World*](http://qntm.org/mcadamis), a short story that is sort of a play on Bondian tropes.

>> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+2]  *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (25 minutes later)
>> 
>> Dang, I thought I'd read everything on qntm already.
>> 
>> Nice one.

>>> **u/alexanderwales** [+2]  *Time flies like an arrow* (26 minutes later)
>>> 
>>> I really enjoyed the idea of "30 First Drafts" for National Novel Writing Month, and most of them are quite good.

> **u/None** [+1]  (5 hours later)
> 
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>> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+2]  *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (5 hours later)
>> 
>> That makes a ha-ha-only-serious one-pager parody (like the rational horror movie video). _The Jennifer Morgue_ does a better job of deconstructing it.

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