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#1 User is offline   Salt-Man Z 

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Posted 10 June 2013 - 02:45 PM

This is my attempt to keep a roughly-chronological list of all the Dresden stories. It was originally located here, but I'm spinning it off into its own thread to make it easier to find and keep updated. Maybe a mod could sticky it, pretty please?

Anyway, most of it is taken straight from Butcher's site. Relative times for various between-novel stories taken from this ridiculously-detailed timeline on the Jim Butcher forums.

The current jim-butcher.com timeline is located here.

Known Timeline said:

  • "A Fistful of Warlocks" (Brief Cases/Straight Outta Tombstone)
  • "Restoration of Faith" (Side Jobs)
  • Welcome to the Jungle (graphic novel)
  • Storm Front
  • Fool Moon
  • Ghoul Goblin (graphic novel)
  • "B is for Bigfoot" (Brief Cases/Working for Bigfoot/Under My Hat)
  • Grave Peril
  • Summer Knight
  • Death Masks
  • "Vignette" (Side Jobs)
  • Blood Rites
  • Dead Beat
  • "I Was A Teenage Bigfoot" (Brief Cases/Working for Bigfoot/Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste)
  • War Cry (graphic novel)
  • "Something Borrowed" (Side Jobs/My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding)
  • Proven Guilty
  • White Night
  • Down Town (graphic novel)
  • "It's My Birthday Too" (Side Jobs/Many Bloody Returns)
  • Wild Card (graphic novel)
  • Dog Men (graphic novel)
  • "Heorot" (Side Jobs/My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon)
  • Small Favor
  • Backup (Side Jobs/Backup)
  • "Day Off" (Side Jobs/Blood Lite)
  • The Warrior (Side Jobs/Mean Streets)
  • "Curses" (Brief Cases/The Naked City)
  • "AAAA Wizardry" (Brief Cases/Dresden Files RPG: Our World)
  • "Last Call" (Side Jobs/Strange Brew)
  • Turn Coat
  • "Bigfoot on Campus" (Brief Cases/Working for Bigfoot/Hex Appeal)
  • "Even Hand" (Brief Cases/Dark and Stormy Knights)
  • "Love Hurts" (Side Jobs/Songs of Love and Death)
  • Changes
  • Aftermath (Side Jobs)
  • Ghost Story
  • Bombshells (Brief Cases/Dangerous Women)
  • Cold Days
  • "Cold Case" (Brief Cases/Shadowed Souls)
  • Skin Game
  • "Jury Duty" (Brief Cases/Unbound)
  • "Day One" (Brief Cases/Unfettered II)
  • "Zoo Day" (Brief Cases)
  • "Monsters" (Parallel Worlds)
  • "Job Placement" (jimbutcher.com microfiction)
  • Peace Talks
  • Battle Ground
  • "Christmas Eve" (Battle Ground/jimbutcher.com microfiction)
  • "The Good People" (jimbutcher.com microfiction)
  • * Twelve Months
  • * Mirror Mirror

(* forthcoming)

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  • * Untitled (graphic novel)

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 23 March 2022 - 08:09 PM

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Posted 10 June 2013 - 03:02 PM

Is Butcher going to put all those Bigfoot stories into an omnibus or something because I really want to read about a Teenage Bigfoot.
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Posted 10 June 2013 - 03:05 PM

He's said he'll eventually do a second anthology of all the shorts that didn't make it into Side Jobs. So far 7 such stories exist, and Side Jobs had 11, so I'm guessing it'll be a couple more years.
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Posted 10 June 2013 - 03:42 PM

If he does 20 main series + 3 for Big Apocalyptic Trilogy + Side Jobs + one more short story collection, that'll be 25 books in the series. That's a lot of novels for a private dick with a magic stick.
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Posted 10 June 2013 - 09:27 PM

isn't it looking to be 24 or so for main now?

changes was the planned halfway point.....
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Posted 10 June 2013 - 11:29 PM

That still matches his initial statement of 20+3, eleven books of first half, Changes, eleven books of second half, 23 in total. Though if he wants to write more then that's perfectly acceptable.
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Posted 17 June 2013 - 09:30 PM

Nice! Makes figuring a chronological re-read easier!

I've seen on the Jim Butcher website forum one that's got dates and ages figured, which I thought was a neat read. I don't think there's an official year statement at any point, but I think they figured that Storm Front has to take place in or close to the year 2000, and Harry is 25 at the time (and Murphy is 4 or 5 years older than him, apparently). There are lots of references to the time between novels and/or to the seasons, so then it's easy to figure out the year post-Storm Front, and it seems Butcher has been keeping mostly to the timeline of writing them, ie Cold Days should be about 12-13 years after Storm Front!

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 18 June 2013 - 03:31 AM

Nice! Pinned.

BACKUP was originally a ltd ed novella before it was included in SJ.
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View PostAbyss, on 18 June 2013 - 03:31 AM, said:

Nice! Pinned.

You never actually pinned it. :p

Pretty please?
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Posted 11 February 2016 - 11:15 AM

Though if he wants to write more then that's perfectly acceptable. === http://www.win-on-slots.com/ ===

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 05:37 PM

SMZ, needs an update to add LOWTOWN ^_^
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Posted 12 February 2016 - 01:59 PM

If you mean DOWN TOWN (Google didn't find anything on "Low Town") then that's been there since my last edit. But thanks for the pin. ^_^
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Posted 12 February 2016 - 02:44 PM

View PostSalt-Man Z, on 12 February 2016 - 01:59 PM, said:

If you mean DOWN TOWN (Google didn't find anything on "Low Town") then that's been there since my last edit. But thanks for the pin. ^_^


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Posted 15 February 2016 - 09:22 AM

The only timeline I need write now is a definitive release date for Peace talks. The shakes are bad
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Posted 16 February 2016 - 06:53 AM

I've just started a re-read, so this was really handy - thanks! :hrhr:
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