Dresden Files

[Geekyfanboy]

The TV series might have not had a long life.. but looks like we are getting another book.

Favor Brings Dresden Back

Best-selling fantasy author Jim Butcher told SCI FI Wire that his latest Dresden Files novel, Small Favor, continues several ongoing storylines and gets involved in a couple of new ones during the course of the investigation.

"It's the 10th book of the series, in which I plan to write a total of 20, more or less," Butcher said in an interview. "Once all the 'case' books are written, I plan to cap the whole thing off in a big old apocalyptic trilogy. I mean, come on. Who doesn't love apocalyptic trilogies?"

Harry Dresden, wizard at large, has in the course of his investigations incurred a debt to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, Butcher said. "He owes the big bad queen of the wicked faeries two favors, and in this story she shows up to collect on one of them," he said. "Harry finds himself subject to attack by the minions of Mab's enemy, Titania, the Queen of the Summer Court, as well as in danger of being wiped out by friendly fire in the course of a case he would much rather went unsolved--the kidnapping of Chicago crime boss John Marcone. Throw in a couple of holy knights, a cult of demon warriors and the Billy Goats Gruff, and it's looking like a long week for poor Harry."

Faeries, in the Dresden Files books, "ain't no pixie-dust-spilling, friendly, cutely animated little Tinker Bells," Butcher said. "They're the faeries of the Grimms' tales, the original, gruesome ones, and even the friendliest among them can be lethally dangerous in the right circumstances. Harry finds himself maneuvered into becoming a pawn in the continual war between the two major powers of Faerie, the Summer and Winter Courts, and, as always, it takes everything he has to survive the situation without abandoning the true victims of the matter."

Butcher is currently at work on the first four-issue Dresden Files graphic novel for Dabel Brothers, an original prequel story set a few days before the events of the first book in the series, Storm Front. Following the publication of the prequel graphic novel, Dabel Brothers will publish adaptations of the Dresden Files novels. --John Joseph Adams

[Rico]

Cool.  I have the first few novels.  Still have to read them.  But they are coming up soon on my reading list!

[Geekyfanboy]

Yeah I'm going to look into getting them.. I really enjoyed the TV series... and I know it was based on this book series.

[wraith1701]

The books are pretty cool.  Butcher is a very entertaining writer; his books manage to be suspenseful and frightening at moments, while maintaining a sort of self-effacing humor that reminds me of Robert Asprin's Myth-Inc. books. 

[Locutus]

I really like these books, and Jim is a pretty nice guy.

Too bad about the show (my wife and I couldn't stand it) but the comic looks cool. I picked it up today.