Philip Pullman ’s seminal trilogy started with The Golden Compass in 1997 and finish with The Amber Spyglass in 2000 . Or so we think — because now , the author has denote an integral sequel trilogy , The Book of Dust , will derive in October .
The first book does n’t have a title , but the name of the trilogy is highly indicatory to buff . In the world Pullman create , “ rubble ” is a particle responsible for everything from view to the trueness - separate twist ( the Alethiometer ) that protagonist Lyra carries . And , as far as the Church in Lyra ’s parallel world is concerned , it ’s also a reflexion of original sinning , since it seems to be draw to mass .
The proclamation published onPullman ’s websiteproclaims that The Book of Dust is n’t actually a sequel or prequel story it ’s “ an ‘ equel . ’ It does n’t tolerate before or after His Dark Materials , but beside it . ” He adds that Lyra is the core of it all , she ’ll start and finish the new trilogy . “ This mass and the next will cover two parts of Lyra ’s life : starting at the origin of her story and return to her 20 year after , ” pen Pullman . But fans should go back and re - read His Dark Materials for a clue about what ’s come :
It ’s a dissimilar story , but there are preferences that lector of His Dark Materials will recognise , and case they ’ve met before . Also , of course , there are some characters who are fresh to us , let in an average boy ( a male child we have seen in an early part of Lyra ’s story , if we were paying attending ) who , with Lyra , is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a newfangled world .
Dust , as the title suggests , is the thing that brought Pullman back to writing this man ; the questions about it and the struggle between people who want to analyze it and those who want to repress knowledge of it interested Pullman enough to write more .
While everything about Lyra ’s life before she ’s inclose in The Golden Compass — including what expire down between her parent — is interesting , it ’s going to be the sequel plot that has fans salivating . Or , at least , has this lover salivating . The trilogy ended with Lyra and Will Parry falling in making love but being forced to divide because they literally come in from different universes . It also had Lyra losing the intrinsic ability to learn the alethiometer and vowing to work up the Republic of Heaven . That ’s all stuff I ’m kind of desperate to see follow up on .
‘ Til October 19 , then .
BooksHis Dark MaterialsPhilip Pullman
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