Questions Specifically for Jim

[William McCoy]

What exactly, if any, is the full signifigance of the name "Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden", from both inside the books, and as an author.  Is givning a pyromaniac wanderer the last two names Copperfield Dresden an accident?  Or am I just thinking too hard?


---Slim

[Priscellie]

What exactly, if any, is the full signifigance of the name "Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden", from both inside the books, and as an author.  Is givning a pyromaniac wanderer the last two names Copperfield Dresden an accident?  Or am I just thinking too hard?


---Slim

I tend to think you're thinking too hard.  Though when my roommate was serendipitously reading "Blood Rites" and "Slaughterhouse 5" at the same time, I made some inappropriate jokes about the "fire-bombing of Dresden." XD

Though the "Copperfield" chronology thing will continue to plague the Timeliners until A) We die, or B) Jim explains what he was thinking.

[William McCoy]

Oh, and on a scale of one to boom, how powerful are the dragons in the Dresdenverse?

[Phil Boswell]

Oh, and on a scale of one to boom, how powerful are the dragons in the Dresdenverse?

BOOM

HTH HAND

[Bob]

Magic and Tech:

Disclaimer: Jim, please feel free to ignore this question if answering it would prematurely reveal something you have planned for a forthcoming book.

It is well documented in the Dresdenverse that magic and tech get along as well as Israelis and Palestinians.  Having seen that a wizard can cause tech malfunctions, is the reverse true?  Would a sufficiently powerful electrical generator, say, in close proximity to a wizard, cause his or her  magic to misfire or not work at all?

Or, to phrase it somewhat differently, would a sufficiently powerful ferromantic focus disrupt other types of magic?

There have been numerous stories over the years that had as a common theme magic being driven out by technology.  While some of these were allegories for rule by the masses replacing rule by oligarchies, others were, within the context of the story, literal.  How did things shake out in Harry's world?

[Shiggy]

I just re-read Grave Peril, and I was wondering if the following passage was meant to foreshadow things that happen in Proven Guilty, or if I'm just reading into it too much.

"Mortal Children are so sweet.  And can be bent and shaped in so many, many ways.  Your eldest daughter, I think, would-"  Lea to Michael page 243

And if anyone else can answer this, then I beg one of the Moderators to transfer this post.  Thankies.

[jimbutcher]

I just re-read Grave Peril, and I was wondering if the following passage was meant to foreshadow things that happen in Proven Guilty, or if I'm just reading into it too much.

"Mortal Children are so sweet.  And can be bent and shaped in so many, many ways.  Your eldest daughter, I think, would-"  Lea to Michael page 243

If so, that would imply that I was thinking about seven years ahead.  I mean, I would have to be, to have written something like that back when I did Grave Peril, which was way before the books actually *sold*.  It would mean that I'm doing a lot of stuff on purpose, given that, you know, Molly actually wound up /in/ the Winter Queen's fortress, with Lea (Mab's chief advisor) actually /right there/.

Hell, if I'm doing that, why not assume that I planted stuff in Storm Front that I don't intend to come out until the big old apocalyptic trilogy's finale?

That would be kinda nerdy, dontcha think?

Jim
Nerd Royale With Cheese

PS--I'll be answering the rest of these, honestly, as I have the time.

[Shiggy]

Thanks for the answer.  And I do have to say that this

That would be kinda nerdy, dontcha think?

is the most informative line of that response. 

[Mickey Finn]

(I've left Phil's response because it was humorously appropriate and Shiggy's because folks who are new to Jim might need the extra hint that he was being silly, but remember folks, if you want to discuss Jim's responses to questions in this thread, please start another thread [with "From Questions For " in the title]. The Questions For threads are the only threads that I worry about this on, because it's designed to streamline questions. Jim & Robert definately go into other threads and comment there as well.
   While this may seem to create unnecessary threadage on the boards, it helps to keep questions [especially repeated questions] they might otherwise miss from being overlooked.
   Nobody's in trouble, this is a friendly reminder.)

[jimbutcher]

Don't know whether this might turn out to be a plot point or not, but who was the original "owner" of the skull Bob lives in ?

Bob doesn't know!  Etienne the Enchanter picked it up on the cheap, back in medieval France, and skulls weren't exactly uncommon.  Etienne himself probably had it for the reason that so many writers and sages had skulls hanging around--to make their office look cooler.

Etienne, though, is the one who originally laid out the enchantment on the skull to enable it to be a little home-away-from-home for Bob, and he's been passed down, wizard-to-wizard, ever since.

Jim