The Imagination Chamber: Philip Pullman's breathtaking return to the world of His Dark Materials: cosmic rays from Lyra's universe

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The Imagination Chamber: Philip Pullman's breathtaking return to the world of His Dark Materials: cosmic rays from Lyra's universe

The Imagination Chamber: Philip Pullman's breathtaking return to the world of His Dark Materials: cosmic rays from Lyra's universe

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Meacham, Steve (13 December 2003). "The shed where God died". Sydney Morning Herald Online . Retrieved 13 December 2003. Had enough of cities? Journey to the frozen North with Mila and her sisters in The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millward Hargrave. Can they find their stolen brother? You will be spellbound by their whirlwind adventures. Miller, Laura (26 December 2005). "Far From Narnia: Philip Pullman's secular fantasy for children". The New Yorker . Retrieved 12 April 2007.

SLA – Philip Pullman receives the Astrid Lindgren Award". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 3 April 2008. Lenz, Millicent and Carole Scott (2005). His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Phillip Pullman's Trilogy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3207-2. Lyra and Pan re-learning how to read the (forgive me I've since forgotten how to spell it) aletheometer and then telling Will seems so sweet If you enjoy reading about furry animals, Tess has a pet tarantula in The Star-spun Web by Sinead O’Hart. After a menacing stranger appears in her orphanage, they are propelled into an adventure through multiple worlds. How can the Starspinner – the device Tess has had since a baby – help her thwart a terrible plan? Lyra Belacqua, a wild 12-year-old girl, has grown up in the fictional Jordan College, Oxford. She prides herself on her capacity for mischief, especially her ability to lie, earning her the epithet "Silvertongue" from Iorek Byrnison. Lyra has a natural ability to use the alethiometer, which is capable of answering any question when properly manipulated and read.Lyra, Iorek, and Roger travel to Svalbard, where Asriel has continued his Dust research in exile. He tells Lyra that the Church believes Dust is the basis of sin, and plans to visit the other universes and destroy its source. He severs Roger from his dæmon, killing him and releasing enough energy to create an opening to a parallel universe. Lyra resolves to stop Asriel and discover the source of Dust for herself.

The trilogy came third in the 2003 BBC's Big Read, a national poll of viewers' favourite books, after The Lord of the Rings and Pride and Prejudice. [1] Highfield, Roger (27 April 2005). "The quest for dark matter". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 17 May 2020.Philip Pullman likes the metaphor of a cloud chamber, in which “the passage of charged particles, or cosmic rays” are made visible; he believes his mind “has become accustomed to working like a cloud chamber, in which minute particles charged with story can find something to condense around them and make them visible for a fleeting moment.”

In Jordan College, Oxford, 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon Pantalaimon witness the Master attempt to poison Lord Asriel, Lyra's rebellious and adventuring uncle. She warns Asriel, then spies on his lecture about Dust, mysterious elementary particles. Lyra's friend Roger is kidnapped by child abductors known as Gobblers. Lyra is adopted by a charming socialite, Mrs Coulter. The Master secretly entrusts Lyra with an alethiometer, a truth-telling device. Lyra discovers that Mrs Coulter is the leader of the Gobblers, and that it is a project secretly funded by the Church. Lyra flees to the Gyptians, canal-faring nomads, whose children have also been abducted. They reveal to Lyra that Asriel and Mrs Coulter are actually her parents. Squires, Claire (2006). Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller: A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials. New York, N.Y.: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-1716-9. OCLC 70158423. Pullman has identified three major literary influences on His Dark Materials: the essay On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist, [13] the works of William Blake, and, most important, John Milton's Paradise Lost, from which the trilogy derives its title. [14] In his introduction, he adapts a famous description of Milton by Blake to quip that he (Pullman) "is of the Devil's party and does know it". Dawtrey, Adam (13 March 2008). " 'Compass' spins foreign frenzy". Penske Media Corporation . Retrieved 13 March 2008.Squires, Claire (2003). Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy: A Reader's Guide. New York, N.Y.: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-1479-6.



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