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• Introduction: The World of the Golden Compass
  Scott Westerfeld
• Pants on Fire
  Carole Wilkinson
• Bushido Bear
  Linda Gerber
• The Dangerous Worlds of Pullman's His Dark Materials
  Cinda Williams Chima
• Lord Asriel: Dad from Hell or Heroic Rebel?
  Sophie Masson
• Hot Sex and Horrific Parenting in His Dark Materials
  Maureen Johnson
• The Mysterious Mrs. Coulter
  Ellen Steiber
• Shedding Light on Dark Matter
  
• Daemons and the Hunt for the Human Soul
  Susan Vaught
• Ghost in the Machine
  Diana Peterfreund
• Where You Lead, I Will Follow
  Deb Caletti
• Dear Soul
  Juliet Marillier
• Tempest in a British Tea Cup
  O.R. Melling
• Pullman's Dark Materials
  Alison Croggon
• God Is in the Stories
  Ned Vizzini
• Dancing with the Dust
  James A. Owen
• Losing My Religion
  Nancy Holder
• Unreal City
  Elizabeth E. Wein
• A Short History of Hell and the Crabby Old God Who Sends You There
  Herbie Brennan
• Philip Pullman and the Loss of Joy
  Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson