Medallions Designed and Copyrighted © 2006 by John Griswold.
All Rights Reserved.

 Ian Fleming's James Bond:
Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories
has a publishing date of June 15, 2006, ISBN 1425931006, and a release date of
 July 14, 2006.

 NOTICE TO BOOKSELLERS:

The book has beene listed by Springboard as returnable with the Ingram Book Company distribution network via its Title Information Database.

 Glossaries contain translations of foreign terms, annotations, and other information of interest; such as definitive detailed information on the origin of Saramanga’s name (The Man with the Golden Gun).

                                       Ian Fleming's James Bond:

Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories,

by John Griswold, officially approved by Ian Fleming Publications, Ltd (formerly Glidrose), with a Preface by Andrew Lycett and Forewords by Zoë Watkins, Publishing Manager, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.; Raymond Benson, author of The James Bond Bedside Companion, six original 007 novels, and numerous non-Bond novels. Published by AuthorHouse: 06/15/06, Quality Trade Paperback,

Dimensions 11.0 x 8.2 x 0.9 inches, 476 Pages, ISBN: 1-4259-3100-6.

New Information: Page 389, Reference 367 NOTE5, was suppose to be corrected, but was not. The correct information for Page 389, Reference 367 NOTE5, is as follows:
      367 NOTE5: information: Beginning shortly after Wednesday, November 6, 1963, Bond had gone through Electro-Convulsive Shock Therapy (E.C.T.) and subsequent physical rehabilitation. From Monday, December 15, 1963 through December 20, 1963, his physical rehabilitation continued along with intensive gun practice at the Maidstone police range. On December 20, M.'s Chief of Staff briefed Bond on his new assignment. On Monday, December 22, 1963, Bond departed London airport on his mission.

New Information: Concerning extra information for GLOSSARY FOR DOCTOR NO: Ship named Blanche was based on Blanche Blackwell, friend of Ian Fleming.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

    In 1953, Mr. Bond was formally introduced to the British public in Casino Royale when it was published by Jonathan Cape. Most books published about James Bond have covered the film series. This book does not concern itself with the movies. Instead its focus is on the James Bond novels and short stories written by Ian Fleming. This book annotates them. Why should his Bond stories be annotated? There are three main reasons: 

 1.) Ian had a broad base of knowledge.  References to literary works and itemsof historic interest may have been missed by past readers and may be missed by current and future readers of the novels.

2.) Contemporary when written, with the passage of time they have become period pieces covering the 1950s and early 1960s.

3.) Many other notable authors have had their novels annotated to enhance enjoyment and comprehension for the reader.  For example:

     The Annotated Hobbit  (for J.R.R. Tolkien)

     The Annotated Alice (for Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland)

     The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (for Mark Twains novel)

     The Annotated Sherlock Holmes  (for Sir Arthur Conan Doyles books)

     Annotations for literary work such as Ians are usually printed along side the novels text. Annotated volumes customarily have the format of a page divided into two columns with the text of the literary work in the column nearest the binding and the annotations in the column next to it. The Annotated Dracula and The Annotated Alice (in Wonderland) are two examples of literary works that have been formatted in this manner. The likelihood that a publisher would be interested in reissuing all fourteen of Ian's Bond books in this format appeared to be zero. As a solution to this problem, an alternative format was chosen, the annotations are placed in alphabetized glossaries for each book without having the text of each book included.

    As the reader delves more deeply into the series as a whole, one can sense an autobiographical fantasy life being laid out. This is keenly spelt out in the section on You Only Live Twice that includes Richard Hughes' 'Sayonara to James Bond' from his book, Foreign Devil.

    Another objective of this book was to build a high level chronology of the series adventures which has to be thought of as a whole in order to be derived. The detailed chronologies of events are presented at a day-of-week, month, day, year, and time-of-day level. The detailed chronologies are not synopses of the books.  They contain descriptions of non-critical events and vague descriptions of some critical events in order to pique the readers interest. Whenever the chronology risks being too descriptive of a plot development, a spoiler warning has been inserted.

    The intention of this book is for people to read, comprehend, and enjoy Ian's books now and well into the future.

• Each novel is analyzed and includes a glossary and a detailed chronology of events with annotations. The glossaries have translations of foreign terms, annotations, and other information of interest.

•  Maps have been created for many of the novels along with in-depth information concerning specific topics such as, the Moonraker bridge game and the Goldfinger golf game.

• The sections covering the novels and short stories are presented in chronological order based on the analysis in the Overview for the creation of a high level chronology and a high level crosscheck by sequence of the books as they were published.

• In many instances, monetary amounts have been converted to their  2001 purchasing power amount; conversions were done to clarify  Fleming's intent. For example, a recent article stated the bridge games  played in Moonraker by Bond and M against Drax and Meyers were for low stakes. Nothing could be further from the truth.

• Within this book, the differences between the published editions and the original Fleming manuscripts archived at Indiana Universitys Lilly Library are noted. The overview explains how the high level chronology for the Bond novels was created and contains useful information about Bond's  birth year, Bond's Secret Service, the area of Bond's flat, and 'Q'.

If you have ever wonder what Ian was referring to when he mentioned ‘Grandmother’s Steps’ in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service or when he compared ‘The Cannonball’ in Diamonds Are Forever to the ‘Highland Light’ class of locomotive? How about his reference to the ‘girl in the balloon bet’ in Moonraker and, what about the details of the hand-by-hand play of the Moonraker contract bridge game? What is the origin of the name ‘Shatterhand’? What did the hole-by-hole layout of the Royal St Marks golf course in Goldfinger look like? Ian Fleming’s James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming’s Bond Stories has the answers.