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His Dark Materials
Novel trilogy by Philip Pullman
For other uses, see His Dark Materials (disambiguation).
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass.
In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll.[1]
Although His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, and the central characters are children, Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind.
The fantasy elements include witches and armoured polar bears; the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physics, philos