Eager to get a taste of Changes, book 12 of The Dresden Files? The first of four sample chapters will be posted tonight at midnight MST (GMT-7)! When the time comes, you’ll be able to read them here. We’ll release a new chapter each Tuesday until all four are posted, then the book will hit stores April 6th!
You can preorder Changes through the Jim-Butcher.com store.
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The book says little is known of the Outsiders. Google “Dresden files ‘Outsiders'” and pick the Wikipedia definition of that. It’s a little involved to go into detail here.
@ Weston – I don’t remember the exact description, but from the sounds of it they sound a lot like the Outsiders from the HPLovecraft mythos. And my boyfriend and I are kinda hoping that is the case.
Has anyone figured out how old Harry is? I estimate Thomas is at least 7 years older then him.
Luccio makes a comment in Turn Coat that Harry isnt even forty yet so im asuming somewhere is his mid-thirties. Not old at all.
Mia, HPL – Dresden files crossover? Geek-gasm!
I love the idea of Mac as a powerful Wizard, just not Merlin, maybe he is an ex council member…(maybe even held the post as the Merlin)….all the stuff in his bar may be there to hid his power, not just the customers energies…
I do think there is more to Mac than meets the eye, but not a member of the white council or even a wizard. I think maybe he has some fey blood, whatever he is it’s something rare. It’s kind of nice not knowing though, a little mystery is not bad.
Dresden should be…uh…34-36 years old. The Welcome to the Jungle graphic novel has notes by Butcher. He says that the series begins with Harry being in his mid-twenties(most likely 24-26).
That would be about right. The series is about 10 years old with Storm Front taking place in March 2000. (There is the mention of the ‘new mellenium’ and that daylight savings time hadn’t started, it was April 2 that year).
I just found out my baby was a boy! We are going to name him Thomas Michael. 🙂 Really love dresden, but it is a biblical name after st. thomas and the arch angel. Cool coinsidence though.
I just refreshed the samples chapters page 5 times before realizing that it was midnight EST, not MST. COME ON!!!
Harry’s age can be inferred from his backstory. He left Ebenezer’s care at 19, spent “a few years” traveling across the USA, and then another set of “a few years” in Chicago until he started working for Nicholas Christian as a trainee PI. This in turn lasted for three years before he got his own license, which has been open for two years by Storm Front. So he has to be at least 19+3+2 = 24, plus two sets of “a few years” – call it 27 years total. Assuming Storm Front takes place in spring 2000 (the year of publication), that puts Harry’s birthday in 1972 or earlier (since he was born on Halloween, meaning he hadn’t yet had his 2000 birthday).
On the other hand, David Seth Kotkin didn’t start using the stage name “David Copperfield” until he was 18, which was in 1974. Which makes it a little strange that Harry’s father would name him that…
I don’t know if this really needs a spoiler alert, but just to be safe:
Spoiler alert!
Since when does Harry use hard-core profanity? In chapter four he says: “F*ck subtle”. I can’t remember him using that word before!?
Not that I’m complaining or anything, since I’m absolutely loving what I’ve seen of Changes so far. It just caught my eye. Maybe that’s why the book’s called changes? Harry experiences a whole new world of cussing. 🙂
That’s far from the first time he’s used the word. It’s sparing, but it’s there, in the series. (It’s used at least once in each of the first five books, and that’s just me looking quickly. He tells Nicodemus to “F*ck off” in book 5, for example.)
Spoiler
“They’re all around your office.” That was great. I laughed till I cried. The only the thing better was, “I mailed my rent in this morning.”
A Dresden File just isn’t a Dresden File without a building on fire.
I wonder why that vampire is so scared. Was it becuase it was a wizard of the white council showed up, Harry Dresden the wizard who took out Bianca and a whole scourge of vampires… 3 times, the father of the child they kidnapped, or all of the above.
I have a new favorite Dresden quote to go with the many, many others:
[spoiler]The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.
I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, “Fuck subtle.”[/spoiler]
Woooo, you go, Harry!
Hey, why use so much inference? I just know that he starts in his mid-twenties, and just add 10-12 to that.
The one thing I love about this series it that everyone plays for keeps. Where else would vampires take the forethought to wire explosives into the office of the unaare adversary