Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files (books 17 and 18) | Worlds of Speculative Fiction (lecture 107)

Check out my Substack - https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ Request personal videos on Cameo - https://www.cameo.com/gregorybsadler Support my work here - https://www.patreon.com/sadler or Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM We are continuing the Worlds of Speculative Fiction lecture/discussion series in an online monthly format. Each session will have a roughly 90-120-minute-long video (this one is longer, though!), which will be premiered (allowing chat interaction between viewers and myself). Then immediately following that, we will have a Zoom videoconferencing session, where we'll continue the discussion. This session focuses on the urban fantasy author Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels, looking at books 17 and 18 of his series, along with an associated novella. We discuss the worldbuilding, character development, and key philosophical themes developed within the series. The works that we draw upon and focus on in this session are: Battle Ground - https://link.amazon/B01twEeee Twelve Months - https://link.amazon/B0d3iUU8f Out Law - https://link.amazon/B04XIjOTf The intro and outro music for this video is "Juno In The space Maze" by Loopop, made available in the public domain by YouTube Audio Library Authors we have covered in the series so far are J.R..R. Tolkein, A.E. Van Vogt, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Leguin, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, George R.R. Martin, Philip Jose Farmer, Madeline L'Engle, Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, C.L. Moore, Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Arthur Clarke, Robert Howard, Gene Wolfe, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Vance, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson, August Derleth, Karl Edward Wagner, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, China Mieville, Walter Miller, Cordwainer Smith, Liu Cixin, R. Scott Bakker, Stanislaw Lem, Neal Stephenson's, Philip Pullman, Olaf Stapledon, Veronica Roth, J.G. Ballard, Dan Simmons, Andrzej Sapkowski, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Steven Erickson, James Kennedy, Jim Butcher, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jeff Vandermere, Tad Williams, Susan Cooper, David Eddings, Ken Liu, Stephen King, Louis McMaster Bujold, Robert Bloch, Mary Doria Russell, Lloyd Alexander. If you'd like to support my work producing videos like this, become a Patreon supporter! Here's the link to find out more - including the rewards I offer backers: https://www.patreon.com/sadler You can also make a direct contribution to help fund my ongoing educational projects, by clicking here: https://www.paypal.me/ReasonIO If you're interested in philosophy tutorial sessions with me click here: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutorials/ #philosophy #speculativefiction #books #literature #fantasy #magic #supernatural #dresdenfiles #chicago #wizard