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His Dark Materials
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Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the cup. Then Claudius dies choking on a chicken bone at lunch. Then the Queen dies when Horatio shows her the magical Mirror of Death. This mirror appears in no previous scene, nor is it explained why it exists. Then Ophelia summons up the Ghost from Act One and kills it, while she makes a speech denouncing the evi
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― Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
― Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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On THE AMBER SPYGLASS:
"If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished in the horrible drunk accident where it went headlong over the cliff of the author's preachy message, tumbled down the rocky hillside, crashed, and burned.
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― Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
― Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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