MI6 and James Bond- Not a winning combination....

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Looking back at Ian Fleming, and particularly the original novel, Casino Royale, is more realistic than the movies. While the denial of a 'licence to kill' is laughable, it is obvious that the life of a spy is not at all glamourous. I am not sure that there would be any aspie spies in the field, unless they were so obsessed in immersing themselves in their cover story. I would imagine, however, aspies would work in either analysis, or creating gadgets.

James Tiptree Jr (real name Alice Bradley Sheldon) worked for the US Army's Air Intelligence and as a photo-analyst for the CIA before she became an SF author.

Her short story The Women Men Don't See can be read at:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree2/tiptree21.html

Wrong planet, indeed....

I think either you or someone on WP has mentioned her before.

Yep, that was me. Fascinating individual she was, and it was years before the identity behind the pen name was revealed. Her stories were often told in first person from a male point of view. Very convincingly, too.

Another of her short stories, Mama come home, is also good. Best paragraph: