Subterranean Press is publishing “Backup,” a new Dresden Files story by Jim Butcher.
The 12,000-word, stand-alone novelette begins:
Let’s get something clear right up front.
I’m not Harry Dresden.
Harry’s a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He’s Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He’ll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences—and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being.
I’ll be damned if I know how.
But then, I’ll be damned regardless.
My name is Thomas Raith, and I’m a monster.
This time Harry’s in trouble he knows nothing about, and it’s up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.
Subterranean is publishing 26 signed, lettered, traycased copies priced at $250 each, 500 signed, numbered, leather-bound copies at $45 each; and cloth-bound, trade hardcover copies at $20. They have very few of the signed copies available for pre-order, and very precise instructions for ordering them, on this page.