A novelisation of the film Moonraker was made by Christopher Wood. Its name was changed to James Bond and Moonraker to avoid confusion with Fleming’s novel Moonraker. It was released in 1979.

The screenplay of Moonraker differed so much from Ian Fleming’s novel that EON Productions and Glidrose Publications authorised the film’s screenwriter, Christopher Wood to write his second novelisation based upon the film.

His first novelisation, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, was based upon a script written by himself and Richard Maibaum for the film The Spy Who Loved Me, and released in 1977. In James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me there were many differences from the film including the villain’s name, the re-emergence of the Soviet spy agency SMERSH, and the possible death of Karl Stromberg’s henchman, Jaws. The script for the film The Spy Who Loved Me went through several drafts before Wood was brought in.

However, in James Bond and Moonraker Wood writes a straight novelisation of the screenplay most likely because he wrote the script completely. One noticeable difference between the novelisation and the screenplay for Moonraker, is that Jaws does not gain a girlfriend and stays true to Wood’s description as being a mute.