The Dresden Files: Ghost Story (Book 13) has arrived!
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Plus one previously unpublished story that takes place right after Changes.
It's a hell of a ride. Changes and Ghost Story have really done a hell of a lot to change things up.
I've read Changes and Aftermath, and damn, couldn't put them down, nice to know Ghost Story doesn't disappoint as a follow up.
Doesn't change the fact that the price tag is too high for what's bein' offered.
Actually, There's a Word of Jim (WoJ) archived by Serack over on the Butcher Boards which roughly says that originally there were going to be around 20 casebooks/casefiles and THEN a Big Apocalyptic Trilogy (B.A.T.) to top it all off, but it took him longer to get to the midpoint Changes which in turn pushed back his plans a bit. If anything, he's having trouble getting everything he's already planned out into their originally allotted books.
So at minimum we're getting 23+ books. More if his kid decides to go to Grad/Med School.
(His words, when I met him at DragonCon last year)
Unless you've read the shorts already I'd disagree, you're getting a full novel's worth of stories, some that can be difficult to get hold of in their anthology and novelette form, and you'd pay a hell of a lot more for all the anthologies. But I guess if you're only collecting paperbacks anyway you wouldn't want it in hardback whatever the price.
Wasn't meant to. Just thought it was worth pointing out that it's not all recycled content, but you can make of that information what you will.
I'll just point out, though, that aside from Backup and the couple of short stories available on Butcher's website, most of the content of Side Trips was material I'd never had the opportunity to read before. So previously published or not, most of it was brand-new to me, and no doubt to a lot of other people.
Which, really, is the whole point of a story collection, isn't it?
Yeah, Side Jobs was well worth the $16 I paid on Amazon.
Not only did it collect most of the short stories (published thus far at the time) it also contained the novellas Backup (a previous limited release from Thomas Raith's perspective), Aftermath (a new release from Karrin Murphy's perspective) and at the time another short Love Hurts which had yet to be published in it's requisite anthology.
Of course there's still (possibly) the original comic story Welcome to the Jungle, the RPG's short story AAAA Wizardry and of course the short Jim couldn't get the rights back for in time to make press, Even Hand (featuring the first person perspective of one Gentleman John Marcone) for the next anthology release.
As well as the Bigfoot trilogy of shorts he just finished working on recently.
and the unpublished WWII story featuring Klaus The Toymaker versus Nazi Demon S.S.
Not only did it collect most of the short stories (published thus far at the time) it also contained the novellas Backup (a previous limited release from Thomas Raith's perspective), Aftermath (a new release from Karrin Murphy's perspective) and at the time another short Love Hurts which had yet to be published in it's requisite anthology.
Of course there's still (possibly) the original comic story Welcome to the Jungle, the RPG's short story AAAA Wizardry and of course the short Jim couldn't get the rights back for in time to make press, Even Hand (featuring the first person perspective of one Gentleman John Marcone) for the next anthology release.
As well as the Bigfoot trilogy of shorts he just finished working on recently.
and the unpublished WWII story featuring Klaus The Toymaker versus Nazi Demon S.S.
^I have Even Hand, I hadn't heard about the Bigfoot trilogy or the Klaus the Toymaker one.
Oh shoot, I forgot the one about the Cubs Curse too... um Curses.
It's a great story that features the fae court of the Tylwyth Teg.
It's a great story that features the fae court of the Tylwyth Teg.
Curses is the one that's out soon, right? I have that preordered.
Yes he did. The Billy Goat Curse.
It's in the Anthology Naked City.
But it's been out for a while (far as I know.)
It's in the Anthology Naked City.
But it's been out for a while (far as I know.)
Ah, it's being released in here in the UK next month.
I haven't heard about the Klaus or Bigfoot ones either, though I now look forward to them a great deal.
I started reading tuesday morning after getting home from work, fell asleep about 2/3rds through, and woke up and finished. I'll avoid spoilers, but... damn. Goooooood book.
I started reading tuesday morning after getting home from work, fell asleep about 2/3rds through, and woke up and finished. I'll avoid spoilers, but... damn. Goooooood book.
The WWII story featuring "Klaus the Toymaker" is as yet, "Unpublished".
Jim has made mention of Klaus in the series proper, and also let some details of his methods of magic slip out in interviews, but no one is certain if that story will ever be released officially. (Klaus uses the toys he makes as magical foci for his spells and such.) Jim said there was just something uniquely satisfying about a man taking down several Nazi summoned demon S.S. with just a small wind-up wooden duck.
Gotta love it.
Jim has made mention of Klaus in the series proper, and also let some details of his methods of magic slip out in interviews, but no one is certain if that story will ever be released officially. (Klaus uses the toys he makes as magical foci for his spells and such.) Jim said there was just something uniquely satisfying about a man taking down several Nazi summoned demon S.S. with just a small wind-up wooden duck.
Gotta love it.