Any chatter as to whether or not Folio Society releases the final work ?
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As the title states..... we have 13 Folio society releases of the original Fleming work... but still lack the final novel... (OK.. technically we do have 14 Folio Bond books - with the last being a substantial price gouge attempt at roping in completist suckers to grab a do-over of Casino Royale for the anniversary 🤣)
But.... there's been a gap in production on these.... curious if they will do the final novel... or if the revisionist spin on the Fleming Bond work has torpedoed that....
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I've not been purchasing these new Folio editions (new editions are not really my thing plus they're rather pricey) but I believe they've published all of the Fleming Bond books apart from Octopussy. There has been some debate about whether they will publish this last book as Octopussy and The Living Daylights with just the two short stories as it was originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1966 or if it will be published as Octopussy which was the expanded paperback title and include 'The Property of a Lady' (added in 1967) and '007 in New York' (added in 2002). Personally I hope they publish it as Octopussy and include all of the four short stories it has been expanded to include in paperback form. It's too slim a volume of short stories otherwise. I've no information on how they're going to approach publishing the final book but I assume they are going to publish it at some point in order to complete the series. As to when that'll be, well only time will tell...
As an update I found this on the Folio Society's Facebook page in reply to a post they made on 1 October 2023: