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Originally, the book contained only two short stories. "Octopussy", which only featured Bond in a minor role, was published for the first time in the March and April 1966 issues of Playboy, while "The Living Daylights" (considered by some critics to be Fleming's best Bond short story) had first appeared in the magazine supplement of The Times in 1962; it was also published in the June 1962 issue of Argosy under the title "Berlin Escape."
When Pan Books published the first paperback edition of the collection in 1967, it added a piece entitled "Property of a Lady" which Fleming had written in 1963 for inclusion in the annual Sotheby's auction house publication, The Ivory Hammer . The title of the collection was shortened to simply Octopussy for the second edition and most paperback reprints of the 1970s and 1980s use this abbreviated title.
A third edition of the book appeared in 2002, and it was expanded once again with the addition of a fourth short story, " 007 in New York", which Fleming had included in American editions of his 1964 travelogue, Thrilling Cities but which did not see print in Britain until the late 1990s. Most editions published since the mid-1990s have restored the original tile of the collection, even though there are now more than two stories included in the book.
Octopussy provided the title for the 1983 entry in the James Bond film series, as well as background for the movie character named Octopussy who we learn is the daughter of the villain featured in the original short story. The film also used some of the plot from "Property of a Lady". The Living Daylights was adapted closely for part of the 1987 film of the same name. At one point, a Bond film called The Property of a Lady was planned for release in 1991, but it was never made (likely it would have used little of Fleming's original story since it had already been used in the Octopussy movie). As for "007 in New York", some Bond fans feel that, while the story itself has never been adapted in film, the spirit of the piece is reflected in the New York segments of the 1973 Bond film, Live and Let Die.
| Preceded by: The Man with the Golden GunThe Man with the Golden Gun is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming. Fleming died before a final draft of the manuscript was completed (it was never a "lost" manuscript as some sources have suggested), and edited by others, reportedly including Kingsley Amis | Octopussy and The Living Daylights | Followed by: Colonel Sun |
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