17 years since its conclusion, author Philip Pullman has announced The Book of Dust, a new trilogy set in the His Dark Materials universe(s).
Writing via his website, Pullman explains that the first two volumes feature heroine Lyra Belacqua in two periods of her life – as a child and 10 years following the climax of His Dark Materials. The new series will include characters readers will be familiar with as well as creations such as alethimeters, daemons, and the Magisterium.
“…is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It’s neither,” writes Pullam. “In fact, The Book of Dust is… an equel. It doesn’t stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. It’s a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognise, and characters they’ve met before. Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have seen 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.
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Writing via his website, Pullman explains that the first two volumes feature heroine Lyra Belacqua in two periods of her life – as a child and 10 years following the climax of His Dark Materials. The new series will include characters readers will be familiar with as well as creations such as alethimeters, daemons, and the Magisterium.
“…is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? It’s neither,” writes Pullam. “In fact, The Book of Dust is… an equel. It doesn’t stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. It’s a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognise, and characters they’ve met before. Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have seen 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.
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