jim butcher

Hey all, looking to find some new urban fantasy to dive into and was curious if anyone had any recommendations. Here's some from my own personal list: - Dresden Files - because of course you can't have urban fantasy without the fully automagic series itself. - Felix Castor - a gritty series...

Still dont know what a Windlass is but so far im enjoying the book a lot. It has a blockbuster feel with a big budget and visual effects. I really enjoy these escape from reality type books, the characters are great so far, the tension is real and the story seems interesting so far, I am a slow...

I'm quite fussy about the fiction I read, and so I don't read as much as I should. I've never read any of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and very little steampunk, even though as an idea it really floats my airship. Mainly because what I have read hasn't had the delight and adventure I've always...

This is the first of The Dresden Files series, featuring a wizard (Harry Dresden) openly practising in present-day Chicago, in an alternative world in which it is accepted (rather reluctantly and with varying degrees of scepticism) that wizardry exists. He makes his living by finding things that...

Dead Beat Jim Butcher Roc, May 2005, $23.95, 400 pp. ISBN: 0451460278 Chicago’s only paranormal wizard-detective listed in the phone book, Harry Dresden shares a basement apartment with vampiric half-brother Thomas, who feeds on beautiful women but never kills or turns them as Thomas is a...

Academ’s Fury Jim Butcher Ace, July 2005, $23.95, 472 pp. ISBN 0441012833 The realm of Alera has stood for over 1,000 years, pushing back barbarian hordes behind a shield wall to keep out the icemaen on one of its borders and guarding the other with well trained legionnares. The people are able...

Proven Guilty Jim Butcher Roc, May 2006, $23.95, 416 pp. ISBN 0451460855 Although Harry Dresden, the only wizard who outed himself, has been at odds with the White Council of Wizards, he finds himself in the position of being a regional Warden. The war with the Red Court vampires has decimated...

Cursor’s Fury Jim Butcher Ace Dec 2006, $24.95, 448 pp. ISBN 0441014345 In the realm of Alera where people can bind elemental furies and use their powers, Tavi is one of the fair who has no magical abilities. He is trusted by First Lord Gaius and was once his page. Now he is a Cursor, gathering...

White Night Jim Butcher Roc, April 2007, $23.95, 416 pp. ISBN 0451461401 If someone told Chicago wizard Harry Dresden that he would one day be a warden in the White Council of Wizards, he wouldn’t have believed them. Many of the council think he is too much of a troublemaker, but with the war...

Captain’s Fury Jim Butcher Ace, Dec 2007, $24.95 ISBN: 9780441015276 The war between the Alera and its vicious neighbor the Canim has mostly been fought on the former’s lands. However, recently a not so subtle change has occurred as the invaders are no longer sending powerful armies into Alera...

My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon P.N. Elrod (editor) St. Martin’s, Jan 2008, $13.95 ISBN: 9780312375041 This follow up to the “I dos” of MY BIG FAT SUPERNATURAL WEDDING contains nine engaging paranormal honeymoons from well known fantasists. All are lighthearted entertainment as the couples...

Small Favor Jim Butcher Roc, Apr 2008, $23.95 ISBN: 9780451461896 Finally a respite for Chicago’s only openly practicing professional wizard Harry Dresden as no one has tried to kill in quite a while. However, Harry’s serenity abruptly ends when the Queen of the Winter Court of the Sidhe and...

Princeps’ Fury Jim Butcher Ace, Nov 25 2008, $25.95 ISBN: 9780441016389 Tavi of Calderon, once an apprentice sheep herder, has become a legend as he is Princeps Gaius Octavian, heir to the throne of Alera and the grandson of the First Lord Gaius Sextus. Tavi negotiated a peace with Alera’s...

Mean Streets Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson and Thomas E. Sniegoski Roc, Jan 2009, $15.00 ISBN: 9780451462497 “The Warrior” by Jim Butcher. Harry Dresden knows he has faced some death defying strange cases, but fears this time with the Michael scenario he may not make it out even...

Many Bloody Returns Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner (Editors) Ace, Feb 2009, $15.00 ISBN: 9780441016754 These thirteen new vampire tales focus on the theme of birthdays (and many happy returns). Although the theme is incredibly narrow and restrictive, the contributors provide fresh...

Turn Coat Jim Butcher Roc, Apr 2009, $25.95 ISBN: 9780451462565 Harry Dresden is a wizard working as a private investigator in Chicago. As an innocent youngster he broke one of the most sacred cardinal rules of the White Council of Wizards and was going to be executed but he got taught right...

Jim Butcher: The Dresden Files: Storm Front Adaptation by Mark Powers; illustrated by Ardian Syaf Del Rey, Jun 2009, $22.95 ISBN: 9780345506399 On Harry Dresden’s Earth, beings such as fairies, trolls, and vampires roam the planet. Wizards also exist, as Harry knows firsthand, being such a...

Strange Brew P. N. Elrod (editor) St. Martin’s, Jul 2009, $14.99 ISBN: 9780312383367 These nine urban fantasies make for a terrific anthology with no clinkers and several super entries. Especially excellent is Jim Butcher’s “Last Call” in which Harry stops for a beer while pursuing maenad...

First Lord’s Fury Jim Butcher Ace, Nov 2009, $25.95 ISBN: 9780441017690 Having come a long way since he was a fifteen years old shepherd assistant concerned with preventing predatory “herdbanes” from stealing his sheep, Gaius “Tavi” Octavian must find a way to unite ancient enemies to fight...

Changes Jim Butcher. Roc, Apr 2010, $25.95 ISBN 9780451463173 To Chicago’s only listed wizard Harry Dresden his affair with Susan Rodriguez feels like yesterday and eons ago. They were madly in love until she was assaulted by one of his adversaries Bianca coming after his Achilles’ Heel. Susan...