| Quantum Of Solace-
The Complete James Bond Short Stories
With no movie novelization
planned for the 2008 James
Bond film "Quantum of Solace", Ian Fleming
Publications are moving ahead with a "complete collection" of Ian
Fleming's short stories. To cash in on the movie, the
title of the collection will be taken from one of the included
stories...Quantum of Solace. Penguin Modern Classics, who
reissued Fleming's novels in two waves in 2004 and 2006,
will publish the collection in paperback for £8.99
in the UK and $15.00 in the USA. It will be released on
May 29th 2008 in the UK along with the reissue of 14
Ian Fleming novels in hardback, a day after the Ian
Fleming centenary. US readers will have to wait until August
26th 2008.
Details are yet to be
revealed about the exact line-up of short stories featured
in the collection, but the following have been previously
published:
Originally published in "For
Your Eyes Only" (1960)
- From A View To A Kill
- For Your Eyes Only
- Quantum of Solace
- Risico
- The Hildebrand Rarity
Originally published in "Octopussy
& The Living Daylights" (1966)
- Octopussy
- The Property of a Lady
- The Living Daylights
- 007 in New York
"For Your Eyes Only" was a collection
of five short stories that Ian Fleming had originally written
for one hour television shows for CBS in mind. Two of the
short stories contained in the "For Your Eyes Only" collection
had been previously published. "Quantum of Solace" had
been published in the May issue of Cosmopolitan magazine
in 1959, and "The Hildebrand Rarity" had been
published in the March issue of Playboy magazine in 1960.
The original 1966 hardback "Octopussy & The
Living Daylights" only included the two titular stories.
The paperback edition added "The Property of a Lady".
The 2002 paperback by Penguin added "007 in New York". |
