His Dark Materials
2 series5 books
Series (2)
His Dark Materials
3 books
The trilogy that establishes Lyra's world and the wider multiverse, following Lyra Belacqua from her childhood in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford through a journey that takes her across multiple worlds and places her at the centre of a war that will determine the nature of consciousness itself. Beginning with Northern Lights, which introduces the world's distinctive theology, daemons, and the mystery of Dust, the trilogy moves through increasing philosophical and emotional complexity to a conclusion that engages directly with Milton's Paradise Lost and the question of whether innocence or experience is the greater human gift.
The Book of Dust
2 books
A companion trilogy set in the same multiverse, functioning as both prequel and sequel to His Dark Materials. La Belle Sauvage, the first volume, is set a decade before Northern Lights and follows a young boy protecting the infant Lyra during a catastrophic flood, establishing the theological and political forces that shape her world before she is old enough to understand them. The Secret Commonwealth, the second volume, follows an adult Lyra in her twenties and is the darkest and most complex work in the wider universe. The third volume remains unpublished.