The first book in the series. Set in an alternate world, Lyra and her daemon find themselves on a quest to the North with the gyptians to rescue all the children that the Gobblers have stolen. While she's about it, she also wants to rescue her father from the panserborne, find the city in the Aurora and discover the secret of the Dust. This is one of the most complex, well-written children's books I have ever read.
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Film being released - lots of angst. 'His dark materials'!!!
Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage;
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book II [1667]
Lines 910-919 in Edition 1
Be good if people begin to think.
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