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lovejoy69:
IIRC, Jim has said a few times that Dresden is several months younger than himself, or has said he's almost a year younger.
JB's birthdate is 26 October 1971. Harry Dresden's birthday is 31 October, so that would most probably put it at 1972. It places Dresden just a few days off from one year younger than Jim himself.
With other info, that Dresden was twenty-five in Storm Front, then IRL that would come out to 1997 if Dresden were twenty-five just about to turn twenty-six, or 1996 if he were twenty-four turning twenty-five, if I counted right.
Storm Front was released in the spring of 2000. Jim had already written the next couple of books by the time SF was sold and was engaged in seeking an agent and a publisher during the late 1990's. The timeline for Dresden's age compared to roughly when Jim was writing those early novels and the corresponding RL dates seem IMO to meld moderately well.
Disagreements? Info I've missed? RL info which I've used is wrong?
(If discussing this is inappropriate for the purpose of this particular Timeline additions thread, I could snip it out into a different thread instead.)
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--- Quote from: lovejoy69 on May 21, 2011, 03:00:12 AM ---IIRC, Jim has said a few times that Dresden is several months younger than himself, or has said he's almost a year younger.
JB's birthdate is 26 October 1971. Harry Dresden's birthday is 31 October, so that would most probably put it at 1972. It places Dresden just a few days off from one year younger than Jim himself.
With other info, that Dresden was twenty-five in Storm Front, then IRL that would come out to 1997 if Dresden were twenty-five just about to turn twenty-six, or 1996 if he were twenty-four turning twenty-five, if I counted right.
Storm Front was released in the spring of 2000. Jim had already written the next couple of books by the time SF was sold and was engaged in seeking an agent and a publisher during the late 1990's. The timeline for Dresden's age compared to roughly when Jim was writing those early novels and the corresponding RL dates seem IMO to meld moderately well.
Disagreements? Info I've missed? RL info which I've used is wrong?
(If discussing this is inappropriate for the purpose of this particular Timeline additions thread, I could snip it out into a different thread instead.)
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I think you missed the point of my post. Harry could be a year younger than Jim and still not have a birth date anywhere near Jim's. That's because we don't know when the books occur. Harry could be born in 1980 for example and still be 25 in Storm Front (and thus of an age with Jim when he wrote it) because of that lack of knowledge.
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Anyways, things that indicate a specific time for The Warrior:
Main Identifiers
-It is softball season.
-It takes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat (and before Last Call)
-Harry gives the time between it and the end of Small Favor to be a year (Side Jobs 217) that could be rounding of course.
Other Possible Identifiers
-Charity is old enough that "her golden hair hid fairly well any strands of silver that might have shown."
-It is warm enough to be playing with a soccer ball outside and moderately temperatured enough for Dresden to not mention the temperature except to mention that during the night it grew cold enough for the water (on the grass that was from the rain) to make his socks uncomfortable.
-Harry is old enough and familiar enough with Harry to climb on him. ;D
-The girls in Alicia's age group are of an age where Harry calls them girls and then corrects himself and calls them young women (he guesses).
-It's construction season and they are just putting up the house's frame.
-It is warm enough to be wearing shorts (Side Jobs 244)
itari:
--- Quote from: Bastian on May 17, 2011, 12:55:25 AM ---Correction: I was looking up where Harry's birth year was given and realized that it is based off Jim's comment that Harry is about nine months younger than he is. That doesn't necessarily mean Harry's was born nine months after Jim. It could simply mean that Harry is Jim's current age minus nine months during Changes. Since we don't know the exact date of the books that doesn't tell us much since a variable minus a constant is still a variable. For example if a book was set in the Forgotten Realms, both the character and the writer could be the same age (both being 29) even if the character was born in 1374 DR and the writer in 1982 C.E..
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Well, you can always use pop-culture ;) For example, (click to show/hide)Harry must have died after July 9, 2003, because in GS sample chapter he asks Captain Jack if he could call him "Sparrow".
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--- Quote from: itari on May 21, 2011, 09:52:26 PM ---Well, you can always use pop-culture ;) For example, (click to show/hide)Harry must have died after July 9, 2003, because in GS sample chapter he asks Captain Jack if he could call him "Sparrow".
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They have been used in the past, they just don't generally narrow it down enough. Thank you for that though.
Edit: added two items to the timeline additions.
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