Archetypes of “The Dresden Files”
By Theresa Bane
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By now I am sure everyone knows how much I adore The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. However, for those of you who just landed on this planet and are unaware… The Dresden Files are a series of books written by novelist extraordinaire Jim Butcher. The series is centered on the main character, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s only P.I. wizard.
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Harry In Hot Water:
or why is my shower cold and my ice cream warm?
Physics in The Dresden Files and how a wizards’ life might be made more comfortable.
Having read sci-fi and fantasy all of my life, I am always fascinated when the author goes to such trouble as to try make the work believable rather than just depend upon the suspension of disbelief by the reader. Jim Butcher has woven a most cohesive Dresdenverse out of what has always been such diverse lore of the supernatural, occult, and fantasy realms. Most of the authors who do put forth the effort to make their worlds work, don’t discuss it openly within the work, but just let it be there humming in the background of the story. Jim Butcher is different that way and he let’s us in on how things tick. Butcher’s characters are constantly acknowledging the harmonies and conflicts between the laws of physics and the laws of magic. It set my mind to wondering how and why certain things work and at times do not work within the carefully crafted structure of Harry Dresden’s world.
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Werewolves:
Origins in European Folklore
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by Matt Walker
You know what a werewolf is. Everyone does. The academic word for werewolf is “Lycanthrope”. A Greek word because Greek - even before Latin - was the language of scholars.
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I’m Just Wild about Harry!
Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden & His Love Life
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NOTE: If you are a fan of the Dresden Files and are not currently “caught up,” why the heck not?! Go, get caught up, and then come back and read my blog. I’ll wait, but don’t dawdle. Jeeze Louise…
I was raised to be a reader. Both my parents were readers. My mom taught all of us kids how to read before we attended out first day of school. We had weekly trips to the library, and bedrooms full of books. To this day, my brothers and I are still readers. And guess what, so are their kids. Ooohhooo It’s the circle, the circle of life!
It’s a rare thing to find an author you like. When you do, you don’t ever want to let him go, you hope that the book you just read was his 72nd because you love his writing so much you want to rush out get the other books he wrote and immerse your entire self in his imaginary word.
I feel that I was blessed the day I discovered Jim Butcher’s series The Dresden Files, and if you read my blogs you know me-I’m a hard sell and a snarky bee-och. I was hooked from page one. I stayed up all night and read it till my eyes bled. Then I wiped away the blood, used a bottle of Visine and kept right on going. Next day I went to the book store and jumped for joy when I saw that there were three other books I had not yet read AND another coming out the following month. La la la Heaven, I’m in heaven….
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The Many Faces of Fantasy Fiction
by June Williams
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“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. “Rod Serling creator of the Twighlight Zone
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”-Arthur C. Clarke’s third law
“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”-Larry Niven
Fantasy in fiction is hard to define because the boundaries keep blurring. When you see the words Fantasy Fiction many people conjure up imagery of faraway kingdoms. Something that looks 8th century, perhaps an even earlier period like the Bronze Age. Lands filled with castles, dragons, unicorns and all manner of wondrous mythical beasties. Realms populated with nobles and not-so-nobles, wizards, witches (not Wiccans), some dressed in silks, lace, furs and jewels others in tatters. Domains where mighty capped sword wielding warriors stand ready with loins girded to save damsels in distress or embark on quests at once noble and dangerous.
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FAIRIES AND THE DRESDEN-VERSE
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by Theresa Bane
Have I mentioned lately how much I love “The Dresden Files?” It was long and ago that I first discovered Jim Butcher and his intrepid wizard hero, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing wizard (he’s in the yellow pages, go check for yourself). In fact it’s going on ten years now, or, there about. Hard to believe that Butcher has written 11 Dresden files book, 5 Codex Alera books, a Spiderman novel, a Dresden graphic novel, two novellas, and who knows how many short stories for various anthologies. Prolific much?
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Dresden Files - Burning Question
Who should get the swords
Ammoracchius and Fidelacchius?
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by Theresa Bane
Warning to Dresden Files Readers - spoilers for Small Favor & Backup
If you, like millions of readers, are a fan of Jim Butcher’s first series of the books, The Dresden Files, then you no doubt are asking yourself the same burning question as the rest of us: who should get the swords. I personally would not be surprised if some enlightened reporter would even ask presidential hopeful Barack Obama for his opinion on the matter. I doubt McCaine reads urban fantasy.
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The Vampires of the Dresden Files
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by Theresa Bane
My hands down favorite author is Jim Butcher. I “discovered” him one year at DragonCon. He was on a panel and was so funny and brilliant and entertaining that as soon as the panel ended I went to the dealer’s room and picked up his first book Storm Front. I began reading it that night in the hotel and was instantly hooked. Read More→
