HisDarkMaterials.org

In Oxford, likelihood flies out the window. So where better for novelist Philip Pullman to base his fantasy?

Everybody listen please, Pullman is speaking:

John Granger, doing an analysis of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets from a Christian point of view claims in it that Pullman was the real life equivalent of Gilderoy Lockhart, certainly one of the most unpleasant characters ever put into a novel.

This comparison seems to me as a poorly hidden attack of Pullman's view of the Church, which is fastly unveiled as insubstantial by the author's anti-women, as well as pseudo-christian behaviour shown in the text.

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The award-winning children's author Philip Pullman today launches a broadside against the government's "brutal" school testing regime, warning that it is creating a generation of children who hate reading and "feel nothing but hostility for literature".

This is a letter from the Guardian, that askes for more fun in school, and supports the concerns expressed by Philip Pullman .

This article is about how many best-selling authors like JK Rowling and Philip Pullman have plegded to print their books on paper from sustainable forestry projects.

Philip Pullman is a brilliant story-teller. Sometimes you are swept away in a high-spirited, action packed tale; sometimes the richness and breadth of imagination and mystery makes the reading compulsive. Either way, it's real 'torch under the bedclothes' stuff as Richard Howes and Holly Williams found out.

Apparently Pullman can not only write stories; he also can read them; read them aloud in front of an audience. And he can act to it, too. The following small film is a sequence showing Pullman reading a passage of The Subtle Knife.

Pullman's variable emphasis and facial expression makes the excerpt even more enjoyable. The ticking grandfather clock standing behind Pullman incidentally adds to the flair of a kind grandfather reading to his grandchildren.

HE LOOKS NICE ENOUGH Philip Pullman, author of the bestselling His Dark Materials series, is considered by some to be Britain's "most dangerous" writer.

A short essay about Philip Pullman, his books and his idea.

Readers ask questions and Pullman answers – we all know this but still it is interesting to read because many questions that are asked have come to our own mind as well.

Following is such an interview which could be interesting, were there not so many questions that I would call downright stupid.

This is a really good, although not very well known interview with Philip Pullman by Fish.co.uk, a Christian site. Interesting questions:

"But would you say that your books have an anti-Christian purpose? Mary Malone in The Amber Spyglass, an ex-nun who has lost her faith, says that Christianity is a very powerful and convincing mistake. "

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A review by Devlyn Fennell, published on The Retriever. Peculiar to this review is that the reviewer understood Pullman held a "pro-religion" position – something he has denied in many interviews.

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Interviewed by Huw Spanner Pullman reveals great details about his position towards Religion and other aspects. The interview becomes interesting as Spanner starts to attack Pullman's point of view quite strongly as being nihilistic and Pullman has the chance to show that his talk is not just incoherent nonsense.

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It's an old article, but a really good one, about how Pullman calls Lewis "blatantly racist" and "monumentally disparaging of women", in his speech at the Guardian Hay festival.

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After months of waiting, rumors, and false assurations, Philip Pullman's website http://www.philip-pullman.com is finally online.

Philip Pullman hired pedalo limited, a webdesign company, to make and design his website so that he may be able to "stay in contact with his fans."

Currently the website isn't finished yet, so you can only sign up for the site's newsletter and read the complete transcript of Philip Pullman's Isis Lecture.

You can join the mailing list, for updates about the website here.

Read the transript of Philip Pullman's Isis Lecture here.

This is an article from 2000, just before the Amber Spyglass was published on the first of November. It's a really good... interview? review? Hard to decide. It also mentions the movies :

"The film rights for the trilogy have been sold. Did he fear his books would be ruined? 'No. Waste of time. Take the money and forget it. I have no power.' "

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