The Circus series

Fandom
Name:	Smiley Versus Karla trilogy; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; more -- see below
Abbreviation(s):
Creator:	John le Carré
Date(s):
Medium:	books
Country of Origin:	UK
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John le Carré wrote many novels centered around a spy agency colloquially referred to as The Circus, and often the character of George Smiley. This page covers the fandom for those novels (???and possibly adaptions of those novels, like the TTSS TV series and film??)

Works

• Smiley Versus Karla trilogy, aka The Quest for Karla
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – (1974)
  • The Honourable Schoolboy – (1977)
  • Smiley's People – (1979)
• Call for the Dead and – (1961)
• A Murder of Quality – (1962)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – (1963)
• The Looking Glass War – (1965)
• The Secret Pilgrim – (1990)
• A Legacy of Spies – (2017)
• more??? see Wikipedia:John le Carré bibliography

Many of these novels have TV and movie adaptions.

Example Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

• Home Time for George, ^{Archived version} by Anthony Martin, 2019 or earlier
• A Brief History of George Smiley (12 page comic), ^{Archived version} by humansmartbomb, 2023
• 洋画６ by まゆまつ, 2023 -- Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux ship art for the 2011 movie

Links

• Wikipedia:John le Carré#Selected bibliography, see also Wikipedia:Smiley Versus Karla and Wikipedia:John le Carré bibliography
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré works on AO3 (this is the catch-all tag for John le Carré's books)
• Tumblr tags: #tinker tailor soldier spy, #ttss, #smiley's people, karla's choice, #John le Carré
• Pixiv tags: TTSS, thi-thi-esuesuhonnkerinnku, #uragirinosa-kasu
• George Smiley series on FFN
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy tag on Zerochan
• r/LeCarre on Reddit
• johnlecarre and georgesmiley tags on Deviantart