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In the 1950s and 1960s, Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional secret agent, James Bond, wrote a number of short stories featuring his creation that appeared in the collections ''For Your Eyes Only'' and ''Octopussy and The Living Daylights''. Since 1997, several more short stories featuring Bond or set within the official James Bond universe have been published by authors who continued chronicling the world of Fleming's creation. The majority of these stories have, as of 2008, never been collected in book form, unlike the Fleming works. There are five exceptions: "Blast from the Past", "Midsummer Night's Doom" & "Live at Five" by Raymond Benson, "Your Deal, Mr. Bond" by Phillip and Robert King, and "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly which are discussed below. ==Raymond Benson short stories== In the late 1990s, Raymond Benson, who at the time was the official novelist of the James Bond literary franchise, became the first author since Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, to write officially sanctioned short stories featuring the superspy. Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story collection along the lines of Fleming's ''For Your Eyes Only'' and ''Octopussy and The Living Daylights''. This, however, has yet to occur as of 2008. To date these three stories remain the only pieces of James Bond literature that have never officially been published in Great Britain. Additionally, between 2001 and 2002, Benson wrote a fourth short story he planned to title "The Heart of Erzulie", however, it was never published. ==="Blast from the Past"=== First publication: ''Playboy'', January 1997 issue. In publication order, this follows ''COLD'' and precedes ''Zero Minus Ten''. Benson has stated that ''Playboy'' cut a third of the story for space reasons. The first Bond story published by Benson, "Blast from the Past" is a direct sequel to Fleming's ''You Only Live Twice'' and appears to exist outside the timeline of either Benson's or John Gardner's other Bond stories. Bond receives a message, apparently from his son James Suzuki (Suzuki's mother is Kissy Suzuki from ''You Only Live Twice'', now dead from ovarian cancer) asking him to come to New York City on an urgent matter. When Bond arrives, he finds his son murdered. With the aid of an SIS agent, he learns that James was killed in revenge by Irma Bunt for the murder of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and a woman whom Bond assumed had died alongside Blofeld (again in ''You Only Live Twice''). James Suzuki's death was by way of being force fed fugu syrup, akin to a murder in ''You Only Live Twice''. Bond's victory over Bunt is hollow, due to him having to come to grips with his absentee fathering and not spending time with the his only remaining blood relative. The name of Bond's son, James Suzuki, is taken from the John Pearson faux biography, ''James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007''. Blast from the Past is included in the 2008 omnibus release, ''The Union Trilogy'', which includes three additional Benson Bond novels. This makes "Blast from the Past" the first non-Fleming short story to be published in book form.〔(The Literary 007: Bonding in 2008 - Jan. 1, 2008 ), retrieved 6 January 2008.〕 ==="Midsummer Night's Doom"=== First publication: ''Playboy'', January 1999 issue. In publication order, this follows ''The Facts of Death'' and precedes ''High Time to Kill''. "Midsummer Night's Doom" is a special story commissioned to help celebrate ''Playboys 45th anniversary. By Benson's own admission, the short story is a joke piece.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=commanderbond.net )〕 In the story, Bond is assigned to attend a party at ''Playboy'' founder Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California where Ministry of Defence secrets are expected to be sold to a representative of the Russian Mafia. While there, Bond meets Hefner, who is aware of his mission and who actually provides Bond with several gadgets a la Q. Bond also has time to enjoy a quick romance with real-life Playmate Lisa Dergan, flirt with other Playmates including Victoria Zdrok, and rub elbows with the likes of actor Robert Culp and singer Mel Tormé. Dergan has the distinction of being the first real person ever to be awarded the status of Bond Girl. (Several other Playmates are referenced by name in this story, but Dergan is clearly Bond's girl of choice on this adventure.) Some sources give this story the erroneous title "A Midsummer Night's Doom", since the title is a play on William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. "Midsummer's Night's Doom" is included in the 2010 omnibus release, ''Choice of Weapons'', which includes three additional Benson Bond novels. ==="Live at Five"=== First publication: ''TV Guide'' (American edition), 13–19 November 1999. In publication order, this follows the novelization of ''The World is Not Enough'' and precedes ''Doubleshot''. Published the week ''The World Is Not Enough'' arrived in cinemas in America, "Live at Five" is the shortest of all James Bond stories, even shorter than Fleming's previous record-holder "007 in New York". Running only a couple of thousand words, if that, it is a brief episode that sees Bond, en route to a date with a female TV news reporter, recalling how he once helped a Russian figure skating champion defect in full view of TV cameras. The reporter, Janet Davies, becomes the second real person to be a Bond girl, seen daily on Chicago's local ABC station Channel 7 WLS. However, Live at Five was finally reprinted in the 2010 omnibus release, ''Choice of Weapons'', which includes three additional Benson Bond novels.〔 ==="The Heart of Erzulie" (unpublished)=== A fourth short story, titled "The Heart of Erzulie", was written by Raymond Benson in-between ''Never Dream of Dying'' and ''The Man with the Red Tattoo'', however, it was never published because Ian Fleming Publications felt it was "too much of a Fleming pastiche." Benson, himself, acknowledges that it was little more than a time-killer in the interim between the two book projects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=commanderbond.net ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Bond uncollected and other miscellaneous short stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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