First look at the US SilverFin Graphic Novel

The Young Bond Dossier has gotten the very first look at the forthcoming US edition of Charlie Higson’s SilverFin: The Graphic Novel.

Click Here To View – due for release in July 2010, this Disney/Hyperion publication is relatively similar looking to the already available UK edition, with the exception of some minor text changes as well as the addition of the ‘A James Bond Adventure’ tagline.

Furthermore, literary 007 fans in the US will have the option of choosing between a hardback and paperback printing of the title.

No pre-order links are available yet, but we’ll update you as soon as they appear.

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The link between Ian Fleming's Moonraker and T-Force

It’s widely known that author Ian Fleming took many of his real life experiences and turned them into plot points, character features and other trivia bits in his James Bond adventures. Now, a just published book by military historian Sean Longden has found a connection between the 1955 Bond novel Moonraker and Fleming’s work in a top secret World War Two unit called Target Force.

Ian Fleming’s Moonraker

As Your Local Guardian reports, Longden came across the connection while performing research for his book, entitled T-Force: The Race for Nazi War Secrets, 1945.

‘I was sitting on the beach in Greece when I suddenly realised just how much of Moonraker—which is about a villain who acquires nuclear rocket technology—was based on Fleming’s experiences with Target Force,’ Longden said.

‘It has been known for some time that Fleming carried out intelligence work during the war, which could have influenced his novels, but I think it took my work on T-Force to reveal just how close the links are.’

Fleming is reported to have worked with Target Force, a unit who was tasked wih the job of bringing Nazi scientists to Britain before they were captured by the advancing Russians. ‘Fleming was sitting at the heart of the scientific intelligence community and it helped him in his work for the Admiralty as well as with his Bond novels,’ Longden noted.

Ian Fleming

‘After this research there is no doubt in my mind he plundered his recollections of the top secret files that passed across his desk for much of the material in Moonraker.’

One particular comparison involves the rocket plot point in Moonraker: in the novel, villain Sir Hugo Drax is highly involved with a top secret rocket project that will supposedly benefit Britain. This echoes the real life Operation Backfire—a British project to test German V2 rockets. Target Force was involved in Backfire by recovering missiles.

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How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle

Live Like James Bond – Even In a Recession

He’s dashing, he’s daring, and he always gets the girl. Get a piece of the action, the glamour, and the excitement of living the James Bond lifestyle with a little help from self-improvement guru Paul Kyriazi, author of How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle.

The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar

Men admire 007 for his cool, his flash, his women and his adventurous lifestyle — all of which can be duplicated without signing up for Her Majesty’s Royal Service. A former producer of action/adventure films himself and an extra in A View to a Kill, Paul Kyriazi, author of How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle, suggests that men cannot go wrong in any situation in life if they asks themselves this simple question: What would James Bond do?

The James Bond Lifestyle explains that men go to Bond movies and cheer Bond on. They root for him to go on despite the pain and blood. But then they come out of the movie and forget to root for themselves.

With James Bond as a man’s ultimate self-help expert, the challenges of everyday living can be met with a positive attitude and a calm plan for seeing things through.

Paul Kyriazi offers these additional tips for Living The James Bond Lifestyle:

• The ultimate secret for attracting women is that girls just want to have fun. Men have to direct that fun by surprising women.
• Carry lots of cash. Bond never has to run to an ATM or rely on credit cards. He can relax because he has the cash.
• Dress up even at home alone. A Bond woman could drop by.
• Undertake plenty of missions and give them names.

Kyriazi has been interested in the James Bond Lifestyle ever since he saw Dr. No when he was in high school but it was only about ten years ago, after an intensive study of self-help disciplines and books, that he was able to distill the essence of Bond cool.

Actor David Hedison, who appeared as Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die and License to Kill, gives a 12-minute introduction to the program. He met the author at SPYFEST on the Queen Mary in 2001 and also appears in Kyriazi’s McKnight’s Memory audio-book narrated by Frank Sinatra Jr., with performances by Robert Culp and Nancy Kwan.

The 8-hour audio-book How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle on CD is taken from The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar with 50 extra “pages.” The author reads it with 20 other actors performing dramatizations along with sound effects.

After graduating from the San Francisco State film department, Paul Kyriazi wrote and produced six theatrical feature films, including Death Machines for Crown International Pictures. During this time, he continued his studies in success and human potential, studying in person with such notable teachers as Anthony Novell (The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind).

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New edition of James Bond Encyclopedia now shipping from Amazon.co.uk

The second edition of the James Bond Encylopedia by John Cork and Collin Stutz is now shipping from Amazon.co.uk.

Literary 007 fans will recall that the original edition of the book was first published in late 2007 and included details on all of the James Bond films through 2006’s Casino Royale. This new edition also adds in Daniel Craig’s Quantum of Solace.

Thankfully, Bond fans in the US won’t have too much longer to wait as the book is slated to be released on the 19th of October. It can currently be pre-ordered from Amazon.com.

The latest edition of this explosive read exploring every aspect of the 007 story created in full collaboration with Eon Productions from Bond’s history to his style and personal tastes, get up close and personal with the world’s most sophisticated spy.

A-Z sections bring you face-to-face with every aspect of 007’s life. Meet the criminal masterminds, megalomaniac warmongers, and ruthless gangsters he’s defeated. Check out the glamorous eye-candy, jump inside the racy vehicles, explore weapons and gadgets then pick up background on key film-makers, music and musicians.

Fully updated to include new information on Daniel Craig, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and the future of Bond himself, with over 1,000 amazing photographs—many never seen before—that take you right inside Bond’s world. A must-read for any fan.

• Order the UK hardback edition of James Bond Encyclopedia from Amazon.co.uk
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Ian Fleming's The Blofeld Trilogy available now in UK

The latest James Bond collection from publisher Penguin Books—Ian Fleming’s The Blofeld Trilogy—is now available in the UK.

As first reported on CommanderBond.net this past April, this new 007 omnibus is published under the Penguin Classics imprint and includes an introduction by journalist Nick Lezard.

Featured are Fleming’s Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice novels, all of which include Bond’s arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld of SPECTRE.

The 720-page trade-size paperback retails for £14.99.

Ian Fleming’s The Blofeld Trilogy

With a new introduction by Nick Lezard.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is James Bond’s arch-nemesis: a deranged criminal mastermind with ambitions to bring the world to its knees in his pursuit of power. This collection brings together three novels featuring the ultimate Bond villain. First introduced in Thunderball, Blofeld’s plan to steal atomic bombs and hold the whole world to ransom leads to a thrilling chase in the Bahamas. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service sees Blofeld developing terrifying weapons–and destroying the one thing Bond holds most dear–and in You Only Live Twice, the shattered secret agent must get his revenge in one last, deadly encounter.

• Order the UK paperback edition of The Blofeld Trilogy from Amazon.co.uk

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Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die first edition shows up at bookstore

The staff at a bookstore in Scotland got quite a surprise earlier this week when they discovered a first edition hardback copy of Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die in a charity bin bag.

Ian Fleming

As reported at Deadline Scotland, the James Bond novel was spotted alongside several other books in a bag of donations to the store.

Tracking down a first edition Jonathan Cape copy of Live and Let Die is no easy (or cheap) task, considering the book is more than 50 years old and the first print run consisted of only 7,500 copies. It is Fleming’s second 007 novel following 1953’s Casino Royale.

Bookshop manager Andy Crosby said: ‘007 seems to bring a bit of luck to our shop. We don’t know who donated the book but I would like to thank them very much for their extremely generous donation.’

The shop plans to auction off the Bond novel at Bonhams in Oxford next week, with an estimated price set at £800.

This is the second first edition copy of a Fleming novel to turn up at the shop recently after a copy of From Russia With Love, worth £300, turned up last year.

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Titan's Ian Fleming James Bond Omnibus

This upcoming Friday will mark the release of the newest addition to the illustrated 007 line-up from Titan Books: The James Bond Omnibus (Vol. 1).

The James Bond Omnibus (Vol. 1) is the definitive collection of James Bond’s adventures in comic strip form, collecting together for the first time eleven of Bond’s most thrilling and dangerous missions, adapted from Fleming’s novels that inspired the James Bond movies.

Titan’s James Bond Omnibus (Vol. 1)

The first bumper volume of its kind from Titan, ‘Volume 001’ presents Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Risico, From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only and Thunderball.

Collected together with an introduction by Sir Roger Moore, this slick volume features over 300 pages of beautiful women, thrilling action, incredible gadgets and the odd Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred…

This ultimate collection of Bond’s best is not to be missed!

The James Bond Omnibus (Vol. 1) will showcase the work of writers Henry Gammidge, Anthony Hern and Peter O’Donnell and artist John McLusky.

Printed as a flexi-bound paperback, The James Bond Omnibus (Vol. 1) will be released on 25 September in the UK and 20 October in the US. Pre-order links follow at the end of this article.

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Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier extract online

The Young Bond Dossier website alerts us that an extract from Charlie Higson’s highly anticipated Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier is now available to read online.

Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier

Literary 007 fans can get their first preview of the book, due out on 29 October, by clicking here: Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier — EXTRACT.

Touted as the complete and definitive guide to Higson’s Young Bond, the aptly-titled Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier will include in-depth character profiles, information on the cars, weapons and exotic locations, plus photographs, maps, and illustrations by artist Kev Walker.

As an added bonus, the book will also feature a brand new Young Bond story by Higson entitled A Hard Man to Kill. For more details on that story, click here.

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The Girl Machine James Bond collection released in US

Titan’s latest addition to their ever-growing collection of James Bond newspaper strip collections—The Girl Machine—is now available in the US.

First released in the UK earlier this year, this new title currently available to order from Amazon.com at 30% off the $19.95 list price. Order links follow at the end of this article.

The Girl Machine brings together the Beware Of Butterflies and The Nevsky Nude adventures in addition to the title story. All three were penned by Jim Lawrence and drawn by Yaroslav Horak and originally syndicated in 1973/74.

Titan’s The Girl Machine James Bond collection

The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world’s greatest and most famous secret agent, James Bond, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever in a deluxe collectors’ library edition! This bumper action-packed volume collects ultra rare Bond stories that have not been seen since their original syndication between 1973-74: The Girl Machine, Beware of Butterflies and The Nevsky Nude. Plus a brand new celebrity introduction and an exclusive selection of recently unearthed James Bond comic strip artwork that has never before seen print, this latest essential volume is not to be missed!

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Ian Fleming 2009 Steel Dagger shortlist announced

Ian Fleming

As earlier reported on CommanderBond.net, the winner of the 2009 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award is set to be announced next month at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, which will be broadcast on ITV3.

The CWA Dagger Awards celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing, and are the longest established literary awards in the UK. These premier awards in crime fiction are recognised internationally as a mark of excellence.

The shortlist for the Steel Dagger award—for best thriller—has just been announced. The winner will be announced and awarded the £2,000 prize on Wednesday, 21 October 2009.

• Michael Connelly: The Brass Verdict (Orion)
• Gillian Flynn: Dark Places (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• John Hart: The Last Child (John Murray)
• Charlie Newton: Calumet City (Bantam Press)
• Daniel Silva: Moscow Rules (Michael Joseph)
• Olen Steinhauer: The Tourist (HarperCollins)
• Andrew Williams: The Interrogator (John Murray)

For further details regarding the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and other awards, click here.

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