By Dust Consumed

Dark•Matter #5

by Don Bassingthwaite

NOTE: This book was written but never published in paperback. It was initially released as a PDF only, but Wizards of the Coast has removed all those.

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 2, 2001

About the author

Don lives with his partner in Toronto, surrounded by gadgets, spice jars, and too many books.

No, I don’t normally refer to myself in the third person. That’s the official author bio from the back of my most recent books. You want some other trivia?

I’m a fan of the serial comma.
I’m a huge fan of breakfast cereal.
I own one (and only one) stuffed animal — a Highland cow from Edinburgh named “Ewan MooGregor.”
I love Edinburgh and London — other large cities visited in the UK include Bath and Plymouth. I’ve also been to Cheddar where I ate a really good cheese sandwich.
I like cheese, especially hard and blue cheeses (Mmmm. Stilton.).
I look terrible in hats with the exception (for unknown reasons) of a few ball caps of particular colour and design.
I look good in rugby shirts, but don’t really own any as I neither play rugby nor follow the sport enough to feel honest buying the shirt of any particular team.
I don’t play or follow soccer either, but that didn’t stop me from choosing a “shirt team” in the last World Cup, wearing their shirt, and cheering for them in pubs. Go Netherlands!
To quote Paul S. Kemp, “Mmm. Beer.”
I have seriously considered buying a kilt. Update March 2008: The kilt has been bought!
Kilt, cow, and fondness for Edinburgh aside, I’m not Scottish.

More to come, I’m sure!

Reviews

[Jesse]

I would love to read this book, unfortunately according to the author I never will. I e-mailed Don Bassingthwaite and according to him it only exists as the manuscript he sent to Wizards of the Coast, and that it was never actually published. I hope some day that information is proved wrong, but considering it came from the author, it probably won't. My nerdy completist side will forever be thwarted.

[Keith Rains]

Again, another fun ride. Heavily focused on Jeane this time around. We finally found out what makes her special. As with the other books, I need to read up on a few things that were brought up in this one.
It feels like a lot of threads were left dangling here. Too bad this was the last one.

[Garrett Earley]

Much to my dismay this series was canceled and shortened making this the last entry, and it succeeds in summing up some of the characters' story lines. I am not going to go into too much detail as the book is not available in print or e-book format anymore. From what I understand I am one of the very lucky few to still possess a copy.