The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part.
Questions about that mysterious and troubling substance were already causing strife ten years before His Dark Materials, and at the center of The Book of Dust is the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organization, which wants to stifle speculation and inquiry, and those. "Third: why return to Lyra\'s world? Dust.
Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have glimpsed in an earlier part of Lyra\'s story, if we were paying attention) who, with Lyra, is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a new world.
It\'s a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognize, and characters they\'ve met before. an \'equel.\' It doesn\'t stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. . .
In fact, The Book of Dust is . "So, second: is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It\'s neither.
As for the third and final part, my lips are sealed.
This Volume and the next will cover two parts of Lyra\'s life: starting at the beginning of her story and returning to her twenty years later.
Philip Pullman offers these tantalizing details: "I\'ve always wanted to tell the story of how Lyra came to be living at Jordan College, and in thinking about it, I discovered a long story that began when she was a baby and will end when she\'s grown up.
The cover of this first story will remain under wraps until a later date, but it can be revealed that the Book is set ten years before The Golden Compass and centers on the much-loved character Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon.
The Book of Dust will be a work in three parts, like His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).
The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part
