Penguin 007 - DMC & IF centenary

a rogue AI · November 2007

Penguin's site for Devil May Care and the 100 year anniversary from Ian Fleming's birth is live, but currently holds little information. A frugal pdf for now.

Next to the lush IF hardcover reprints, it would be nice to get Colonel Sun.

zencat · November 2007

I've started a new website/blog devoted to the lit Bond that is heavily into DMC and centenary news.

http://theliterary007.blogspot.com/

a rogue AI · November 2007

Your blog seems really nice, but I'm afraid I can't read it for a while... not until I've read the Black Dossier. I think I know how JB cameos in it though.

zencat · December 2007

Devil May Care cover art:
http://theliterary007.blogspot.com/2007/12/devil-may-care-cover-art.html

DMC cover model Tuuli Shipster:
http://theliterary007.blogspot.com/2007/12/model-bond-girl-tuuli-shipster.html

Solaris · December 2007

It looks a lot like a Bond film Title Sequence.

I don't know what I think about it. its.. Different from what as come before.

darenhat · December 2007

It's catchy, but IMHO opinion is doesn't seem 'nostalgic' enough for a period Bond piece.

frostbitten · December 2007

I'm not sure I like the phrase "Writing as Ian Fleming" under Sebastian Faulks' name on the cover. Doesn't sound right... I don't remember seeing this on the covers of other continuation authors' books. Don't the covers normally say "Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in

by

" ?

Golrush007 · December 2007

The cover works for me, although I do agree with Darenhat that it should perhaps have been more nostalgic - we are of course going back to the continuity of the original Fleming series.

And also the 'writing as Ian Fleming' bit does seem rather odd!

Solaris · December 2007

I think the "Writing as Ian Fleming" is to make it seem more like a Fleming Novel. suspend reality and consider it almost a 15th Fleming novel. Faulks being the only one to continue Fleming's original continuity. the other contnuation novels are less of a fleming novel and more of a novel by someone else that just happens to be about James Bond.

Sir Miles · December 2007

I can't really make my mind up about the cover, it's nice, but not what I was after. I guess I wanted a cover that was more in the style of Richard Chopping, especially as the cover states that Faulks is writing as Ian Fleming.

Thanks for the update, zencat.

Loeffelholz · December 2007

I think the cover is excellent---a nice nod to Binder. The 'writing as Ian Fleming' is intriguing.

I can't wait to read this one B-)

Napoleon Plural · December 2007

Well, only Amis really wrote as Fleming, and he called himself Robert Markham.

Faulks I guess is trying to make it clear that he's not writing in his own style in case his usual fans might be disappointed.

Don't care for the cover at all. Very unimaginative. More likely to put me off buying it than otherwise.

Tee Hee · December 2007

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Don't care for the cover at all. Very unimaginative. More likely to put me off buying it than otherwise.

Nap, isn't it considered wise not to "judge a book by it's cover?"

Then again, you're not exactly known as a voice of the mainstream, or that of reason!

)

emtiem · December 2007

Extremely stylish.

Just for once I wouldn't have minded a Chopping-style cover as this whole book is about 'looking back'; but this is a very sexy and stylish image- wonderful stuff.

Napoleon Plural · December 2007

Watch it, Mr Hee!

Hope the book is great, just saying a cover is like a video for a song, should make you feel better about it...

Penguin 007 - DMC & IF centenary

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