Dresden Files: Series Timeline

[BookLover♥]

Me too.  I'll never deny that I can overanalyze the smallest of details...

Let me split that hair one more time...

[seiscat]

Is this in the time line?

Harry found Mister 3 years BSF, SF paperback p88

[Priscellie]

Is this in the time line?

Harry found Mister 3 years BSF, SF paperback p88

Yup, it's already there.  Thanks, though!

[Uilos]

I noticed that there was a question mark next to July as the month for Proven Guilty. In case no one else has I confirmed it, it is July

[Beamer]

I don't know if this matters but if Harry was born it 1974 it would mean he was born under a Blue Moon.

[Dellma]

Someone else mentioned it, and it bears repeating. Not that this timeline isn't already expansive and impressive (thank you for working on it) but wouldn't it be good to include Marcone on there?

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(the incident regarding Beckitt's daughter, Marcone's rise to power, encounters with Dresden, becoming a Freelord in the Unseelie Accords)

[Priscellie]

Someone else mentioned it, and it bears repeating. Not that this timeline isn't already expansive and impressive (thank you for working on it) but wouldn't it be good to include Marcone on there?

(the incident regarding Beckitt's daughter, Marcone's rise to power, encounters with Dresden, becoming a Freelord in the Unseelie Accords)

You're right.  I've held off posting White Night-related dates out of courtesy to those that haven't read the book yet, but now that we have the cool spoiler tag, I should probably do so!

[Dellma]

Good point, I held off joining these forums until today to avoid spoilers, and there I go just slipping them in, I modified my post, sorry and thanks, hehe.

[AcornArmy]

Jim had no specific time frame in mind for Vignette, though I like to place it after SK, noting the reference to unicorns not being fun and prancy.

I guess there's not much point in debate over the subject, since there was no intended time period for it, but I think the Vignette could have happened after DM, too, from this quote of Bob's:

"Okay, fine. Suppose we throw intelligence to the winds and only print the truth. 'Vampire slayer, ghost remover, faerie fighter, werewolf exterminator, police consultant, foe of the footsoldiers of Hell.'"

The "footsoldiers of Hell" phrase might be a reference to the Denarians. Of course, given their usual temperament and dastardly deeds, I suppose the term could be applied to most of Harry's enemies, but it seems to apply most readily to the Bad Penny Brigade.

[Aluman]

For what its worth Vlad Tepesh is Vlad Dracula, whose father is Vlad II Dracul, (Vlad the Dragon) commonly referede to as just Dracul.  He was born c.1390, and ruled wallachia until his death in 1447 (minus a little bit of space in 1442), his long reign is clearly evident of a hard and ugly man (by comparsion his son who struck fear into many with his impalements only ruled for about six year uniterupted. I know in BR McCoy says specifically not Dracula, but Dracul.

[Dzango]

From Death Masks: I went down to a nearby diner for breakfast, and asked the waitress to turn on the news. She did.

"… extraordinary event reminiscent of the science-fiction horror stories around the turn of the millennium, what appeared to be an asteroid fell from space and impacted just outside the village of Casaverde in Honduras." The screen flickered to an aerial shot of an enormous, smoking hole in the ground, and a half-mile-wide circle of trees that had been blasted flat

I noticed this during a recent rereading, and I wander if it means something. Death Masks was published 2003, and by my account that is still the turn of the millennium, so how can this event (the fall of the satelite) be reminiscent to some stories written during the same time (probably refers to "Armageddon" , "Deep impact" and similar). Reminiscent in my understanding means remembering something that happened in the past, and not that recently too. So that means that the time in the book is at least a few years ahead of real time. Am I wrong?

[Griffworks]

Nothing personal, but I think you're over thinking the use of the word reminiscent.

Dictionary.com entry for reminiscent

rem·i·nis·cent      / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rem-uh-nis-uhnt]
 
–adjective 1. awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually fol. by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's. 
2. characterized by or of the nature of reminiscence. 
3. given to reminiscence: a reminiscent old sailor. 

It just means something that reminds you of past events, usually in your own life experiences. 

BTW, what I originally got out of that line from the announcer is that it was more a reference to around the 1900's, to be honest.  Basically, a reference to H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds with the description of something falling to earth.  I guess Mr. Butcher might well have meant that - or he might have been referencing the movies you mentioned - Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc...

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

BTW, what I originally got out of that line from the announcer is that it was more a reference to around the 1900's, to be honest.  Basically, a reference to H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds with the description of something falling to earth.  I guess Mr. Butcher might well have meant that - or he might have been referencing the movies you mentioned - Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc...

Maybe the announcer is the sort of person who has only the vaguest notion of SF as a field and confuses Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein; there are certainly a fair number of those around in reality.

[Priscellie]

Nothing personal, but I think you're over thinking the use of the word reminiscent.
It just means something that reminds you of past events, usually in your own life experiences. 

BTW, what I originally got out of that line from the announcer is that it was more a reference to around the 1900's, to be honest.  Basically, a reference to H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds with the description of something falling to earth.  I guess Mr. Butcher might well have meant that - or he might have been referencing the movies you mentioned - Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc...

1900's = turn of the century, not millennium.

Good observation though, Dzango.  Definitely worth thinking about.

[AverageGuy]

Where's Molly's age given in White Night?  Is there a chance that it's an unreliable narrator?