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Moar Dresden Files
The cover art for the April book is out already! :DDD (Note: Highly spoilery for the ending of Changes, at least if you look at it closely. Do not click if you have not read that one yet!) Here is the large version of the cover art and this is the news post it comes from (which also has a listing of the short stories in Side Jobs). Comments will probably contain Changes spoilers, FYI.
*wants April NOW*
*wants April NOW*
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*guh*
So it looks like everyone else thought he was really gone. Wow.
Re: your other post: your comments about Codex Alera are the reason I never did bother to try it. I love Dresden so much, I didn't want to ruin that with anything else, including bad books in other worlds.
Right now the big debate is do I buy the books in hardbound, or ebook, or both. It's probably going to be both, sadly enough for my pocketbook.
Ah, well.
ETA: Oh, your icon is so much better than mine! Is it gackable? *bats eyelashes flirtfully*
;-)
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So it looks like everyone else thought he was really gone. Wow.
Yeah, although I'd guess that the gravestone is symbolic more than an actual representation of something in the book itself. (And so Harry. "He died doing the right thing." Oh, Harry.)
This also suggests that the novella in Side Jobs isn't going to do more than make the suspense worse -- I didn't expect them to resolve the cliffhanger in it (that would be awfully confusing for people who are only reading the books), but in order for the novella to not resolve it, this makes it pretty clear that either no one knows Harry's status at the end of Changes, or ... there's a body. EEP.
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Dresden Files is just about the only series I'm buying hardback anymore.
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Thank you! *g*
That epitaph sounds like what Murph would say about him. As for metaphorical or not, I dunno, because the cover of Changes wound up being far more literal than anyone was expecting. So I wouldn't discount it until we have the book in our hands.
A body???
*EEEP*
Gah.
I just ordered Side Jobs in hardback and ebook; BN's prices made it about the same as buying the hardback itself at full price. I'll probably wind up doing the same for Ghost Story, too.
Ah, well. There are worse vices, right?
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Right with you there; I want April now! (Side-Jobs might give us a Dresden Files fix, but it won't be enough considering the cliffhanger at the end of Changes).
I love this series (which I discovered thanks to one of your rec posts, back when you started reading it, so thank you!)
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And yes, I am SO READY for April! *bounces in chair*
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April cannot come soon enough! As much as I'm looking forward to the novella in Side Jobs, I suspect it's just going to make the anticipation worse, not better. *g*
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And yay, I hadn't realized that Side Jobs was an exclusively Butcher anthology-- I thought it was another mixed author one. Awesome! Now I can finally own all the short stories! I hadn't wanted to buy the originals, because they just get so expensive...
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On a side note, I really love the covers for the series. I adore the cover artist's version of Harry, and they really seem to do a good job at getting the canon details right, too.
And yep, Side Jobs is all Butcher! I own several of the individual stories in their anthologies, but I haven't been willing or able to buy them all. And now I'll have them all in one place!
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Me too. Christ McGrath is an awesome artist. (And I kind of love that he does like 60% of the urban fantasy covers, so all I have to do to find new UF is look for his style...)
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(ahhh I can't see if he's got the "matrix" staff)(in some of the cover art his staff says "matrix" in katakana. I guess it looked something like magic runes? ^^)
That story collection looks pretty sweet, too...
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Whee, is it April yet?!
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The novella in Side Jobs ought to give at least a vague idea of what to expect (at least in the sense that everyone thinks Harry is dead ... or doesn't ...) but, like I was saying in comments to the previous entry, I don't think it can possibly tie up any of the loose ends because a lot of people will only be reading the books in the main series -- it'd be sort of a bait-and-switch if it actually answered anything rather than leaving that for Ghost Story to do. So I expect a lot of suspense-building and not a lot of answering ...
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