With a new film in development and several tie-in titles arriving across different media formats lately, the James Bond franchise shows no signs of slowing down. And now, yet another new chapter for 007 has been unveiled.Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsRelated: All 9 James Bond Actors Ranked From Worst To Best — Plus the Official New 007 ActorSeveral James Bond Projects Have Been ReleasedSeveral Bond literary titles have been released by Ian Fleming Publications over the past year, including The Q Mysteries‘ Quantum of Menace and The Man with the Golden Compass from Vaseem Khan, the Double O trilogy’s third entry Hurricane Room from Kim Sherwood, and King Zero, the first full-length adult 007 novel from Young Bond author Charlie Higson.Combined with Big Finish Productions’ newly released audio drama series Young Bond: SilverFin (adapted from Higson’s first novel in that series) and IO Interactive’s video game 007 First Light, which launched earlier this year, that’s a lot of content for Bond fans to keep up with.Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsNow, Ian Fleming Publications has announced a new Bond novella, titled All In.Per The Independent, historian Dan Jones has been commissioned to write a new Bond novella in celebration of the National Year of Reading.“Titled All In, the story honours Ian Fleming’s fourth book, Diamonds Are Forever, 70 years after it was published in 1956,” the outlet writes, adding, “The project was revealed on 5 October, known as ‘James Bond Day’ to mark the 1962 premiere of Dr. No.”As such, the book won’t be set during the modern era like so many Bond projects. Instead, the story takes readers back to the 1950s.While Fleming’s debut Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 but set in 1951, All In takes place in 1954, with 007 traveling to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as the British are leaving.Credit: MGM/EON ProductionsJones said of the task of writing a Bond novel: “Being asked to write a James Bond story is one of the greatest honours in contemporary fiction.” He added: “I’m very excited to take Bond to Ceylon at such a pivotal moment in world history – and thrilled that Ian Fleming Publications are trusting me to pay tribute to Diamonds Are Forever, which is one of the great books in the Bond canon.”“But happiest of all is my inner child – the little boy who was such an avid reader that he went to the library twice on a Saturday, who would read the back of the breakfast cereal box if he ran out of books, and who scarcely dared to dream that he would grow up to be a writer, let alone one who has been asked to go All In for the National Year of Reading.”All In is set to be published via ianflemingshop.com on December 3.Here’s the official synopsis from the publisher:Ceylon, 1954.The British are leaving. It’s six years since Ceylon, land of the most precious gemstones on earth, was released from the Empire. The forts and officers’ messes on the island are emptying.But James Bond is travelling in the opposite direction. 007 is on a mission to track down one of the most valuable stones in the world. And he doesn’t have much time to do it. Bond is lured into a deadly game played from the cool mountains of Kandy to the pitch-black depths of the ocean floor, finding the stakes are far higher than gemstones alone.To come out alive, he’s going to have to gamble everything. It’s ALL IN – or nothing.More Future James Bond ProjectsFleming’s work is also being revisited with Ian Fleming’s James Bond Signature Comic Strip Collection Vol. 1, a new hardcover from Titan Comics that collects the first seven full-length 007 newspaper comic-strip adventures. The book is scheduled for release on February 23, 2027.Other future projects include M. W. Craven’s James Bond and the Secret Agent Academy, an upcoming novel aimed at young readers that hits shelves in April 2027, and Grant Morrison’s Sunbreaker, a newly announced six-part comic book series from IDW Publishing. The latter title currently has no release date set.No official casting announcement for Amazon MGM’s James Bond reboot has been made yet. The film is being directed by Denis Villeneuve (the Dune films) and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), with Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Brand New Day) and David Heyman (the Harry Potter films) on board as producers. No release date has been announced by the studio.Which James Bond project are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments!The post Confirmed: The Next ‘James Bond’ Will Not Be Set During the Modern Era appeared first on Inside the Magic.