His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as North America's Golden Compass), Thin Knife (1997), and Amber Speculum (2000). It comes after the adulthood of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they navigate a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the 1995 Carnegie Medal for the Northern Lights and the 2001 White Bread Book for The Amber Speculum. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third in a BBC Adult Read poll.

Although his dark material is marketed as youthful stories, and the central characters are children, Pullman wrote without a target audience. Fantasy items include witches and armored polar bears. The trilogy also refers to concepts from physics, philosophy, and theology. It serves in part as a retelling and reversal of John Milton's Paradise Lost saga, in which Pullman pays tribute to humanity for what Milton considers its most tragic, corrupt original sin. The trilogy sparked controversy for its criticism of religion.

The Royal National London Theater staged a two-part adaptation of the trilogy in 2003-2004. New Line Cinema released a film adaptation of the Northern Lights, The Golden Compass, in 2007. An HBO/BBC television series based on the novels began broadcasting in November 2019.

Pullman followed the trilogy with three novels set in the aurora borealis world. Oxford Lyra (2003), Once Upon a Time in the North (2008), and Serpentine (2020). La Belle Sauvage, the first book in a new trilogy, The Book of Dust, was published October 19, 2017; The second book of the new trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth, was published in October 2019. Both are set in the same universe as the aurora borealis.

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