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James Butcher
magnuskn:
I think it always has been the way that Jim writes one Dresden book and then one in his other series, and so on. It's only that due to all the personal stuff he was going through, he has slowed down in the last decade.
I think it's a bit soon to say that he'd want to turn the Dresden Files over to James. First off, I think James wants to do his own thing and secondly, Jim is 53 years old and has a lot of time going before he gets his wish and dies at his keyboard one day. :p Unless he goes all GRRM for the BAT, I think things will be fine.
Mira:
--- Quote from: magnuskn on March 10, 2025, 01:39:02 PM ---I think it always has been the way that Jim writes one Dresden book and then one in his other series, and so on. It's only that due to all the personal stuff he was going through, he has slowed down in the last decade.
I think it's a bit soon to say that he'd want to turn the Dresden Files over to James. First off, I think James wants to do his own thing and secondly, Jim is 53 years old and has a lot of time going before he gets his wish and dies at his keyboard one day. :p Unless he goes all GRRM for the BAT, I think things will be fine.
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You never know...
Lord Kinbote:
I'm not sure why anyone thinks that Butcher won't have other unexpected things pop up in his life that take up significant time and energy, and also slow his writing output. If Butcher got back to his one every 12 or 18 months, the last book is 10 years away. Even if he gets to a Dresden pace of every other year, the end is still 15+ years away.
Whether you pick 10 or 15 or think 20 years is more realistic, I'd bet the over (but hope that Butcher gets a co-author soon to increase the odds that the 63-YO me is around to read the last book).
Mira:
--- Quote from: Lord Kinbote on March 10, 2025, 08:54:15 PM ---I'm not sure why anyone thinks that Butcher won't have other unexpected things pop up in his life that take up significant time and energy, and also slow his writing output. If Butcher got back to his one every 12 or 18 months, the last book is 10 years away. Even if he gets to a Dresden pace of every other year, the end is still 15+ years away.
Whether you pick 10 or 15 or think 20 years is more realistic, I'd bet the over (but hope that Butcher gets a co-author soon to increase the odds that the 63-YO me is around to read the last book).
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I feel your pain, I doubt that I will live to see the end of the series either.. I've been questioning for a few years now as to why we need this many books to tell the story in the first place? How much has the story really advanced in the last few books? What I am hoping for anyway in the next book is maybe finally finding out what or who protects Lord Raith? What did Margaret find out that she was able to preplan her death curse so that if she couldn't kill him at least fix it so he couldn't feed... But then why isn't he dying? I think all of that is important but those little tidbits have been left hanging out there since Blood Rites! Lots of guesses, but no answers!
Lord Kinbote:
Mira, are you confident that Mother Margaret is dead? I'm not, even in the face of WOJs. In writing 26 books and more about Dresden, I think Butcher may well have to engage in "willful misdirection" in answering questions, else his non-answers/refusals to answer have fans figuring out what Butcher wants to keep hidden for revelations at his own time. In that regard, at times the series reminds me of Three's Company - can someone just have a conversation to explain things to Dresden, and avoid a lot of misunderstandings and avoidable conflict? Since no one clues Dresden in on critical matters - like what does Starborn actually mean or do for Dresden - what are they hiding from Dresden and why?
I spent some time researching to see if it was impossible that Margaret had assumed the Leanansidhe mantle (like Mab, the Winter/Summer Ladies, the Winter/Summer Knights - a theory of mine). It would be a bit awkward, though Lea does call Dresden 'my son' a few times.
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