HisDarkMaterials.org
HisDarkMaterials.org is one of the leading His Dark Materials websites, including information about The Golden Compass movie, the book trilogy, extensive fan art galleries, photographs of Philip Pullman, and related visual resources. It also contains a dæmon name generator, an active chatroom, a His Dark Materials role playing game, and an interactive encyclopedia. News is updated daily, with members being able to discuss news items. The website is also home to Cittàgazze.net, the world's largest His Dark Materials forum.
Movies
The Golden Compass
Books
Overview
The Golden Compass / Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Lyra’s Oxford
The Book of Dust
Features
The Golden Compass World Premiere
Cannes Filmfestival 2007
Alethiometer
Cartography
lauriefrost
About lauriefrost
- Posts:
- 50
- Comments:
- 3
- Location:
- USA
- Interests:
- reading, writing, remembering
- Likes:
- Coca-cola over finely crushed ice, fresh bread, traveling alone, op art, sleeping and dreaming, Blonde on Blonde, fabric stores, my laptop, 3 Women, The Wizard of Oz, chocolate kreme filled Dunkin’ Donuts, cities built for walking
- Disikes:
- George W. & his cronies, the sound of my neighbor’s leaf blower, hot and humid weather
Biography
I first read His Dark Materials in winter 2000/spring 2001 and by fall 2002 was deeply into the project that would in 2006 be published as The Elements of “His Dark Materials” by Fell Press and in 2007 was revised and released outside North America as Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” - The Definitive Guide by Scholastic UK.
I knew as soon as I finished the novels that someone would write a guide to the people, places, things, and ideas of HDM, and figured it may as well be me. I had come across Pullman while working at a K-8 private school library; after challenging the Authority of that little world, I suddenly but unsurprisingly found myself with lots and lots of spare time.
Elements was my second book. The first, Reminiscent Scrutinies: Memory in Anthony Powell’s “A Dance to the Music of Time” (1990), had its first incarnation as my dissertation for my PhD from Rice University in Houston , Texas. Powell’s work is nearly unknown in the US, and this book of mine had very, very limited appeal, but I enjoyed the years I spent living in the twelve novels that comprise Dance.
If your library subscribes to The Journal of Popular Culture, you can check out an essay of mine, “Pets and Lovers: The Human-Companion Animal Bond in Contemporary Literary Prose” (Summer 1991). Some of the works I discuss there remain among my favorites: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Easy Travel to Other Planets, My Dog Tulip, Particularly Cats. An aspect of HDM that immediately attracted me was dæmons.
I was raised in Miami and have lived in Birmingham and Huntsville, AL and Houston, TX. I spent the happiest six weeks of my life at University College, Oxford.
I have a husband, a son and a daughter, three cats, and a collie.