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| | Telling True Stories |
 | | His Dark Materials consists of three volumes: The Golden Compass (1996; published in Britain as Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). | | | It is the universe of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials and, as I shall attempt to show in the pages that follow, it is a universe that rests upon a very particular vision of material spirit and of the practical and ethical implications of such a vision. | | | Because Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a work generally found in the Young Adult section of the bookstore, I'd like to offer a bit of background on the work. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~scolas/Words/Essays/telling_true_stories.htm
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| | From Beyond the Mists |
| | Dark, steep rocks shelved to deep waters, and to all ordinary appearance there was nothing to indicate the slightest variance between flow and ebb. | | | The fascination never waned, nor has it yet waned: today, as then, I know at times the old thrill, almost the old fear, when through a white calm or up some sea-loch I watch those dark involutions, in sudden twists and long serpentine curves, as the eddies of the tide force their mysterious way. | | | I remember that one of the most strange and perturbing pleasures of my childhood was in watching, from a grassy height, the stealthy motions of the tides. |
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http://www.irishwitch.org/walking/Beyond_the_Mists.shtml
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| | His Dark Materials |
| | Sir Nicholas Hytner knew as soon as he heard "His Dark Materials" that Philip Pullman's highly imaginative recreation of "Paradise Lost" was made for the stage. | | | "His Dark Materials" is based on the novels by Philip Pullman. | | | "His Dark Materials" is one of the National's most ambitious projects, and aims to create an experience as meaningful for 12-year olds as for adults. |
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http://www.timothydalton.com/his_dark_materials.htm
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| | Japan Was 'Days Away From Test' Of A-Bomb |
| | For some reason, I didn't enjoy his follow up book Dark Sun on the H bomb. | | | Dark Sun seemed to not really have a well defined end point and I always felt like "the rest of the story" couldn't be told because it hadn't been declassified yet. | | | I also thought that the tale was a little harder to tell in that the A-Bomb program had a well defined begining and end and seems to have been well documented in declassified materials. |
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| | www.myspace.com/unicoroner |
| | elfquest, anything by robert e howard, the chronicles of narnia, the dragonlance chronicles, his dark materials, the book of the new sun, the wizard knight, the chronicles of thomas covenant the unbeliever, the silmarilion, the lord of the rings... |
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| | Dragonlance Nexus: Archived Nexus News - News: Archive |
| | According to Margaret Weis on this thread, the name of the Dark Chronicles trilogy has been changed to Lost Chronicles. | | | The Parsons are a group of nobles, bards, and mystics who worked as a resistance movement during the Dark Knight occupation of Solamnia, and try to keep order afterwards. | | | You can discuss the Lost Chronicles book titles further on this thread. |
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http://www.dl3e.com/news/archive
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| | SCM: Questioning Christianity |
| | The first book in His Dark Materials is excellent, I agree. | | | On another board where I post we've been having a debate about 'His Dark Materials', the trilogy of children's novels by Philip Pullman. | | | A couple of chapters later, Miss Coulter kills a goodie by letting loose a spectre on them: the goodie's final agonies are described at length, just so we know: Miss Coulter is really evil - she's so evil she puts good guys through that. |
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| | Books Guardian online Q&A with Philip Pullman |
| | Both of His Dark Materials Trilogy, and your other work. | | | Q:: I've read His Dark Materials twice, after my daughter (and the tape of Northern Lights) got me hooked. | | | Your His Dark Materials books are the first I have ever triple underlined as very, very VERY good. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4358299-99930,00.html
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| | icSouthlondon - Dark ambitions |
| | With previews from Thursday, His Dark Materials is directed by NT supremo Nicholas Hytner while the epic yarn has been adapted by Nicholas Wright, whose multi award-winning play Vincent in Brixton, about the young Van Gogh in South London, is currently on tour. | | | The Lewisham actor is in the thick of rehearsals for His Dark Materials, perhaps the most ambitious project the National Theatre has yet staged. | | | These things include - to name but a few - flying witches, soul-eating spectres and the "daemons", continually shape-changing creatures which can be bird, animal or insect and are the shaman-style personal spirits of people, and children in particular. |
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http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/1000whatson/0300theatre/content_objectid=13668803_method=full_siteid=50100_headline=-Dark-ambitions-name_page.html
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| | icTeesside - Author reveals heroine's return |
| | The creator of the award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials was delivering the inaugural Fickling Lecture on developments in children's literature, organised by Newcastle University and Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books. | | | It was an intellectual tour de force but many in the audience were probably most interested to hear that Lyra, the heroine of His Dark Materials, will be back. | | | The author, a patron of Seven Stories, warned his audience that it was a writer's prerogative to crash from one scientific discipline to another, taking bits that appealed to him. |
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http://icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/thejournal/news/tm_objectid=16183313&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=author-reveals-heroine-s-return-name_page.html
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| | Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife - an infinity plus review |
| | In this, the second volume of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman continues to develop the grand Miltonic scheme of an emerging masterpiece of modern Fantasy. | | | nonfiction - Northern Lights, the first volume of the His Dark Materials trilogy reviewed by Nick Gevers. | | | It could be argued that the very setting of His Dark Materials, its range of alternate worlds, is a metaphor for the free will the rebels seek: all options realized, in parallel, rather than the stable monolithic reality Authority desires. |
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http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/subtle.htm
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| | Fantasy and revolution: an interview with China Miéville |
| | Philip Pullman, The His Dark Materials Trilogy (1995-). | | | Monleon says, 'The spectre of revolution, then, seems to be at the base of this reappearance of unreason in general, and of the fantastic in particular.' So the 'unreason' of fantasy is a kind of neurotic counterpoint to capitalism's 'rationality'. | | | If the Shire is a suburban garden, Sauron [the 'evil' dark lord] and his henchmen are that old bourgeois bugaboo, the mob--mindless football supporters throwing their beer bottles over the fence--the worst aspect of modern urban society represented as the whole by the a fearful, backward-yearning class. |
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| | Lucifer vs Phoenix Force |
| | More books here, I was kind of thinking of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, when the dead are released from the world of the dead, their souls disintegrate and become part of nature and all that. | | | The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. | | | TGEB embodies darkness and destruction and it didnt exist in hell, he already existed before it and even before The Presence himself, hence the saying "before there was light, there was total darkness". |
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http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-342691-lucifer-vs-phoenix-force.html
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| | His Dark Materials [an unofficial fansite] |
| | His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass and all related characters, concepts, and commercial offspring are the property of Philip Pullman, Scholastic Books, Random House Inc, New Line Cinema and all other right-holders. | | | A disk of blood, distant; & heav'ns & earth's roll dark between / | | | Bringing her family with her, Powell returned to Milton, who accepted both his wife and his in-laws into his house. |
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| | Fringe: May 2005 Archives |
| | I began reading the first book in the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman, and after the slow start, it's been an engrossing read, and for the life of me, I can't say why. | | | Anakin is pushed further down the dark path by Palpatine, who encourages him to kill Dooku and become his personal liaison to the Jedi Council. | | | When the Jedis finally confront Palpatine, Anakin turns his life over to the Dark Side completely, transforming into Darth Vader and performing unspeakable acts of cruelty and evil in a matter of a few moments. |
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| | spectre - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Spectre : Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology [home, info] | | | spectre : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info] | | | spectre : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] |
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| | Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat |
| | J.W. Hastings finishes his long-delayed Moore vs. Miller critical grudge match by comparing the ABC line and Watchmen to Dark Knights 1&2, and believe me, the resulting fireworks were worth the wait. | | | David Fiore didn't like The Dark Knight Returns, which is unfortunate, but in his opening salvo on the book he's compared Batman to Conrad's Mr. | | | Bruce asks us to accept his version of things: he's just a man, ready to battle God ("There's just the sun and the sky and him, like he's the only reason it's all here.") if he must, in the pursuit of justice. |
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | * _His Dark Materials 2: The Subtle Knife (Random House/Knopf Paperbacks 0-375-80211-8, Oct ’99, $10.00, 326pp, tp, cover by Eric Rohmann) [His Dark Materials] Reprint (Knopf 1997) fantasy novel, second in a trilogy. | | | * _His Dark Materials 2: The Subtle Knife (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-41336-9, Oct ’99 [Dec ’99], $5.99, 288pp, pb, cover by Eric Peterson) [His Dark Materials] Reissue (Knopf 1997) young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to the award-winning The Golden Compass. | | | * *Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (with Elizabeth Massie) (HarperEntertainment 0-06-105752-5, Oct ’99 [Sep ’99], $6.99, 378pp, pb) [Dark Shadows] Novelization based on the TV show. |
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| | www.myspace.com/ouistiti |
| | Another trilogy aimed at children but far more suitable for adults The Dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. | | | A really beautiful look at what life and love is, the heavens and realityn as we know it, what id call a real thinker of a book. | | | Also a collection of books i think theres three now, the Artemis Fowl trilogy is brilliant. |
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| | fantastic planet » The Shadow People |
| | Interesting, in Philip Pullmans & Dark Materials’ trilogy (which has a shed load of nods to Gnostic ideas in it) there are characters called spectres that sound similar to your descriptions and feed on the life force of human adults. | | | The dark form below would be the photographer holding up his arms, but due to the brightness of the flash, it’s direction, and the scratchy mirror, it makes him look like some kind of ghoul. | | | He described them as being like dark absences. |
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| | Small But Disorganized » Culture |
| | Philip Pullman- he of the marvellously secular trilogy His Dark Materials - has called Narnia “one of the most ugly, poisonous things I have ever read” | | | This time the darkness demands sharia law be applied to Muslims in various western countries rather than the law of the land. | | | I am starting to feel like those people must’ve felt in the 1930’s as they watched the darkness growing in Europe, knowing the inevitable clash is coming even as leaders proclaimed “Peace in our time” (”This is not a clash of civilizations”). |
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| | Shameless: Bibliography |
| | Mar 2002 'The Betrayal of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.' ICFA, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. | | | Jan 2002 'The Betrayal of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.' Children's Fantasy, Bulmershe College, Reading. | | | Mar 2003 'Puppets and Grace: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and the Marionette Theatre.' ICFA, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. |
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| | His Dark Materials BridgeToTheStars.Net |
| | The commentaries section is a place for His Dark Materials fans to read and record their insights or opinions on the trilogy, and the many issues that it raises. | | | Is His Dark Materials Really an Attack on the Narnian Chronicles? | | | Repairing the World: “His Dark Materials” and Kabbalah |
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| | TTA PRESS DISCUSSION FORUM: Book Notes - Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| | Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy is one of those stories where I could spend all of today raving about all the stuff I loved about it but could then spend all of tomorrow ranting about all the stuff I didn't like about it. | | | And I'm trying to put some time aside for Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. | | | "The Drawing of the Dark" is another Masterwork volume, a romp of a story set against the siege of Vienna in 1529 and with all sorts of strange things going on in the background, while "On Stranger Tides" is another great adventure, this time tackling pirates and zombies and magic makers. |
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http://www.ttapress.com/discus/messages/54/185.html?1091544462
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| | TI Dispatch Archives:2005 |
| | The Sally Lockhart books are set square in the TI timeline, the His Dark Materials trilogy is a fascinating mine of great ideas, and I‘ve not yet read Spring-Heeled Jack, to which I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a copy. | | | Ellis C. Taylor’ Looking Into the Dark Places is a fabulous guide to those “mysterious forces that shape our thoughts, our deeds, our world; and how they (ultimately it), manipulate every participant and every constituent in every incident in an eternal contest between light and dark.” | | | Fudge (and Terra Incognita) publisher Grey Ghost Press announced at the GAMA Trade Show that May will see the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Fudge, in hardcover, with a plethora of extra material that was originally intended for a supplement. |
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http://www.fudgerpg.com/nags/dispatch_archives/dis_arch_2005.htm
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| | Bursting with adequatulence |
| | His Dark Materials pulls out a victory over Hemingway and Preacher to move on to Round 3. | | | Silk Spectre I - Adrienne Barbeau or Jacqueline Bisset | | | Previous attempts to translate Alan Moore to film have been unsatisfying, at best (From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), so it's hard to hold out much hope for this one, which seems all but impossible to distill into a two- or even three-hour film. |
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| | Recommended Reads 2002 - Recreation - Christchurch City Libraries |
| | The third volume of Philip Pullman's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials. | | | Pushing against the tide of his generation, he is on his way to find enlightenment, some part of himself that cannot be signed or sold. | | | She hurtles towards either her destruction or her liberation she discovers that deceit is in the blueprint of our birth, that ancient Aunts have their own dark secrets, that envious sisters have their reasons. |
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