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HopefulNebula: I'm looking forward to Golden Compass, but I'm a bit worried that Gaiman's "Stardust" will try to premiere ahead of "Compass" and steal their thunder. The story is amazingly similar but Gaiman wrote his book several years after Pullman's book.
Both seem to be set in an alternate timeline 1910's-ish colonial empire, both plots involve going to explore an atmospheric/stellar phenomenon, both main characters are ignorant-but-lovable kids, there's the one evil witch and then some jolly outlaws/tramps/vagabonds willing to help the main characters at no charge.
I like the lineup for "Compass" better; Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Eric Bana, Kevin Bacon, John Hurt and Ian McShane.
Stardust has Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Flemyng, Rupert Everett, Peter O'Toole, Ricky Gervais, Ian McKellen's voice and Claire Danes' nose.
Now, one of the main reasons I like "His Dark Materials" is because it's more realistic than other fantasy titles like J.K Rowling's or Trudi Canavan's work; people, even kids, can die or get murdered out of hand in "His Dark Materials", and Lyra gets drunk and pukes at least once, which is streetcred out the wazoo in my book, coming from a fantasy-character underage girl.
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Weighing in, I like Terry Brooks, but never got into his Shannara series. Last time I talked to him about this, he seemed happy with how they were treating it, so I'm not going to second-guess him. As with many things, "wait and see".
--Jonah
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