John Gardner Back in Print
#1
Posted 23 January 2004 - 03:16 AM
#2
Posted 23 January 2004 - 03:21 AM
We'll have to get some pics on here when they come out! Hopefully, they'll be better than some previous efforts.
#3
Posted 23 January 2004 - 05:17 AM
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Posted 23 January 2004 - 06:46 AM
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#5
Posted 23 January 2004 - 08:54 AM
Sweet. I'd given up hope that this omnibus was for real.It's new offical release date is Jan 31, but it's available now. Mine was shipped 2 days ago from Amazon.co.uk.
Don't care for the cover at all, but I'm very pleased to see Gardner finally back in print.
#6
Posted 23 January 2004 - 08:57 AM
#7
Posted 23 January 2004 - 09:02 AM
The cover art is the same art Coronet used on their 1995 edition of For Special Services.
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Posted 23 January 2004 - 12:13 PM
#9
Posted 23 January 2004 - 12:32 PM
Yes. I guess it was too much trouble for them, though.Huh! Well, I thought they would come out with something new
#10
Posted 23 January 2004 - 02:18 PM
The cover's pretty nifty but I thought they would have come up with something new rather than reusing one of the old covers.
Does anyone know what they other two were? I think the Licence Renewed one was a pearl necklace or something but I've never seen the Icebreaker one.
How far did Coronet get with the Bond novels? I know the did all the Fleming's, Colonel Sun and a number of the Gardner's but I'm not sure how many.
#11
Posted 23 January 2004 - 02:33 PM
Edited by johnboy007, 23 January 2004 - 02:33 PM.
#12
Posted 23 January 2004 - 02:37 PM
While it's been years since I read For Special Services, I don't remember any huge shootouts, but I could be wrong. Either way, I'm just amazed that they are taking one of the most recognizable characters in the world and rather than using silloute (spelling) or something that would identify it as Bond, they make it look like a Rambo novel or some cheap soldier of fortune thing.
#13
Posted 23 January 2004 - 02:40 PM
I just find the text in the Bond ones too, I don't know clumped together. It's unconfortable to read. Or maybe it's just me...
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Posted 23 January 2004 - 03:00 PM
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Posted 23 January 2004 - 03:52 PM
#16
Posted 23 January 2004 - 05:20 PM
Couldn't agree more. Truly horrible.they make it look like a Rambo novel or some cheap soldier of fortune thing.
Mind you, you could argue that Gardner's 007 has much more in common with Rambo or a soldier of fortune than Ian Fleming's James Bond, so....
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Posted 23 January 2004 - 10:15 PM
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Posted 24 January 2004 - 12:32 PM
#22
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:29 PM
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#23
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:29 PM
(There's a pic of your Coronet Icebreaker, Dlib.)
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#24
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:32 PM
BTW, where'd you pick your's up Zencat, and for how much?
(I'm not being nosy, I'm just really interested in getting this. )
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Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:34 PM
#27
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:35 PM
Yep, they sure do. It where I get all my UK Bond books.Many thanks, but does amazon.co.uk ship to the US? I've never bought from that amazon.
#28
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:36 PM
Yet another thing to add to my list.
#29
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:38 PM
It'll be whatever the normal shipping would be from the UK to the US.Wow! Cool, and there's no extra shipping costs?
#30
Posted 27 January 2004 - 11:48 PM
I own older copies of the three novels, but it'd be nice to pick up the new omnibus. Let's hope they continue to release these.