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There were over 70 entries for the contest, and a total of over 200 raffle tickets entered!
The Book Collection and BridgeToTheStars.net are going to try to mail these copies out this weekend!
Great job to everyone that entered!
Oh and as a special bonus I'd like to show you all the funniest entry we recieved :D
1- What is the name of the college in Oxford where Lyra is raised? um. oscar college?
2- What was the form of Sir Charles's Daemon? a tadpole
3- What kind of animal does Will see going through a window into Cittagazze? oh oh oh! i know this! a dolphin
4- What were the wheel-riding creatures Mary Malone encountered called? hippos. no, munchies. um, mulefesasesis's. or something like that.
5- Who is the leader of the rebellion against the Authority? mr jack frost?
6- What was Lyra hiding in when she saw the block of ice with (supposedly) Stanislaus Grummans head? doctor who's TARDIS
7- What form is the Master's daemon? snail.
8- What is the name of the previous bearer of the Subtle Knife? nobbert
9- Who replaces Lord Roke as commander of the Gallivespians? ralph
10- What year's Tokay does Lord Asriel especially prefer? 2053
11- What is the name of Sir Charles' chauffeur? bill
12- Who is Lord Asriel's alethiometerist? del-boy
13- What does the word 'Panserbjørn' literally mean? pan-friend crisps
14- What did the guest at Mrs. Coulter's party say "Gobblers" stood for? Group Of Blind Blinking Little Egg Ranting Sisters
15- What food did Lyra attempt to make after seeing Will make it? Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding with Peas and Carrots.
16- What was the name Lyra gave No-Name the harpy? sharron
17- What was the name of the girl who was bringing Mrs. Coulter food while she was hiding with Lyra in the cave? dawn french
18- What was the name of the Witch who killed Will's father? sister hillier
19- Who is the Goddess that comes to a witch when she is ready to die? mrs jesus
20- What is the first thing that Lyra says to Roger in The Amber Spyglass? wotcha mate, do you want tomato ketchup with your sausage sarnies?
I really got a kick outa that ;)
HIS DARK MATERIALS
Olivier Theatre
opening 20 December 2003
Nicholas Hytner directs the world premiere of His Dark Materials, based on the novels by Philip Pullman, adapted by Nicholas Wright into two plays. They preview in the Olivier from 4 December, with press performances on 20 December, and will run until March 2004. The cast is led by Dominic Cooper as Will, Niamh Cusack as Serafina Pekkala, Timothy Dalton as Lord Asriel, Patricia Hodge as Mrs Coulter and Anna Maxwell Martin as Lyra, and also includes Samuel Barnett, John Carlisle, Patrick Godfrey, Stephen Greif, Jamie Harding, Akbar Khurta, Inika Leigh Wright, Helen Lymbery, Tim McMullan, Helen Murton, Cecilia Noble, Nick Sampson, Danny Sapani, Jason Thorpe, Russell Tovey, Ben Whishaw, Ben Wright and Richard Youman.
There are as many worlds as there are possibilities. I toss a coin. It comes down heads. But in another world, it comes down tails. Every time that a choice is made, or a chance is missed, or a fork in a road is taken ... a world is born for each of the other things that might have happened. And there, they do.
HIS DARK MATERIALS takes us on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. For Lyra and Will, its two central characters, it's a coming of age and a transforming spiritual experience. Their great quest demands a savage struggle against the most dangerous of enemies. They encounter fantastical creatures in parallel worlds - rebellious angels, soul-eating spectres, child-catching Gobblers and the armoured bears and witch-clans of the Arctic. Finally, before reaching, perhaps, the republic of heaven, they must visit the land of the dead.
This will be an epic production both in its narrative scope and its staging, involving artists from new technologies as well as old. 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. Parts I and II can be seen on separate dates, or on the same day in a double-bill.
Now all I need is a plane ticket to the UK...
The legions of children and adults who are impatient to return to the vivid, fictional world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy have a lot to look forward to this autumn.
Not only is a film version of the fantasy series under way at the same time as a stage adaptation is put together at the National Theatre, but Pullman is to publish a new companion piece to the trilogy in October. Called Lyra's Oxford, it will re-introduce readers to his heroine, Lyra, and celebrate the intricate and detailed fictional landscape that Pullman has created for her.
'At the heart of it is a new short story called 'Lyra and the Birds', explained Pullman this weekend. 'It's set a couple of years after the end of The Amber Spyglass, and refers both back and forward - so it's a sort of bridge between the trilogy and a longer book coming later, to be called The Book of Dust.'
(Later in the story)
Fickling has asked designers Trickett and Webb to help produce the book, while Lawrence has already done preliminary work on the illustrations. 'Readers of the trilogy will immediately know where they are,' said Fickling. 'I asked Philip if he could do some bits and pieces around the idea of a map and this book grew out of it. He always told me he couldn't write short stories, but it isn't true. Lyra is there right from the beginning with her daemon Pantalaimon and there will even be a postcard from this parallel Oxford. It will all go on sale in October for £9.99.'
*Does Happy Dance!*
Full Story
The publication of the guide has been delayed (in fact I'm still in the final stages of writing it). It should be out (though Continuum haven't absolutely confirmed this) in September in the US and October in the UK.
Darn :-\
I looked at the Weblog on your website and thought I'd answer straightaway your musing about whether the guide would be pro- or anti- the series, though! I'm a big fan of the series, and I'm sure that will show through in the guide.
Always good to have another fan!
The aim of the series, though, is to provide an overview of the book/s for reading groups and school and college students who are studying it (and in fact anyone else who wants more information), and so it does look at negative criticism that has been made of the trilogy as well.
Well that's neato :D
Then she made a refference to the website of the Publisher's Website for more information.
The section dedicated to the "Continuum Contemporaries" books is right here
"So I went up and said ‘Peter Hitchens?’ He said ‘Yes’. I shook his hand and said ‘Happy Christmas’. He said ‘I didn’t think you believed in all that’, and stomped off. He’s such a grump."
Pullman does not exactly recount this story with pride (that would suggest that he considered Hitchens’s intellect serious opposition to his own), but it does not displease him either. Like the Whitbread Book of the Year prize he won last year and this month’s Radio 4 serialisation of His Dark Materials, starring Terence Stamp and Emma Fielding, Hitchens’s attack represented fame at last - and, when you are a schoolmasterly 56-year-old and your other novels have rarely done better than so-so, the "at last" is as important as the fame.
Farther along in
"God came into being," he explains. "He was not the creator, but He was the first. And when other beings arose, the first angels, He told them that He was the creator and they worshipped Him and obeyed Him because He told them to.
"One of them was the Sophia - this is where I use previous mythology, gnosticism and the idea of the Sophia, the wisdom - and she advised the being that called Himself God, not to do this. Don’t rule in this despotic, tyrannical way. Let us all respect one another. Let us all be equal.
"But He wouldn’t have it. So He threw her out of heaven, together with the other rebels, and she was one of the angels who tempted Adam and Eve and all the other beings in all the other worlds in this cosmology of mine. What the serpent was bringing Adam and Eve was wisdom."
Pullman’s female protagonist, Lyra, is a kind of second Eve and her friend Will (Free Will) a replacement Adam. Their quest is to regain paradise and build what Pullman calls "the republic of heaven".
Considering previous attempts to create heaven on earth, I confess the phrase terrifies me. He agrees it lies open to misinterpretation. "It’s a metaphor. Don’t make a mistake of thinking that I’m immediately calling for a political republic. It’s not a political republic. It’s a moral republic."
It's all quite interesting, if you want to read the full story go here.
