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With film novelizations!
Pardon my enthusiasm for this.
I actually wish Everything or Nothing, Bloodstone, Skyfall and maybe even Spectre and No Time To Die got novelizations. While Agent Under Fire and NightFire got one combined. I could see Raymond Benson writing EON, Bruce Feirstein writing BS and John Logan writing SF.
EoN and Bloodstone ones could be quite fun if the stories were expanded. One of the Indy games got a novelisation and it's fun.
I am just as enthusiastic
I agree. I think it would widen their appeal again.
I understand your (and others) fears. It kind of reminds me of the script problems with TND. Director Spottiswoode said that, in January 1997, MGM had a script also focused on the Hong Kong handover; however, it could not be used for a film opening at the end of the year, so they had to start "almost from scratch at T-minus zero!" It seems that it worked out in the end for the better. Charlie Higson is like Bruce Feirstein, they both have Bond experience. I trust him. Hopefully IFP will start doing one novel a year again.
Or a short story collection like the one Miss Marple had recently. IFP could do something a bit new now they're publishing themselves, and I feel you could get a variety of interesting authors if they're doing short stories rather than whole novels as it's less of a pressure on their time.
That's actually a great idea!... I'm not a fan of the novels post Fleming, but I'd definitely pick up an anthology of short stories by different authors....
What would be great is for Higson to alternate each year - Young Bond one year, adult Bond the next (contemporary or period piece. I don't mind either way)... I can dream... ;)
Sounds like a good idea.
I might be completely wrong but I feel like it would have been fairly easy for Higson to bring the Bond character into today with an adult tone what with his experience even though he was writing about a younger version of the character. His Young Bond wasn't chauvinistic, maybe because he was too young anyway but also because he was writing for a modern audience. He didn't smoke. I feel like all Higson had to do when he wrote OHMSS was to give us a more experienced, wiser, world weary Bond. I do hope he has given us a decent amount of character depth in Bond.
Perhaps sets up Bond's own Who's On First ? scene ?
What's your name ?
Vella
Ella ?
No ! Vella !
Then again......maybe not.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65184776
https://www.waterstones.com/book/on-his-majestys-secret-service/charlie-higson/9781915797070
What's the shipping to USA?
£12.49 (USD 15.53) Shipping
£25.48 (USD 31.66) Total
Not confirmed as official or anything, I see this image in minor circulation.
The Amazon link via Ian Fleming Publications goes to Amazon.uk.
I don't see information for a US release, and at the same time no restrictions for US purchases from UK sources. This item could turn out to have limited print runs and availability is one thought.
I imagine it will be available on Kindle in the US although print editions usually have a gap outside of the UK edition for whatever reason. I had a look on Amazon US earlier and I see no mention of the book there as yet. That perhaps means there will be a bit of a gap between the UK and international releases. I'm not sure though given the highly topical nature of the plot you'd think there shouldn't be too big a gap or really any at all.
Love it hope it’s the cover and yeah I all buy it on friday
Not sure if that's the actual cover or not (I personally doubt it) but it does have a Dynamite comics look about it which I suppose is very in vogue at the minute.