Part of His Dark Materials, book 3.7
First published 2022
Lyra Belacqua walks through Oxford again, her daemon Pantalaimon at her side. Will Parry grips the subtle knife as realities bend around him. Mrs Coulter pursues her dark ambitions while Lee Scoresby soars above frozen landscapes with the armored bear Iorek Byrnison. These moments unfold during the same period when Lyra first discovered the alethiometer, when Will cut windows between worlds, and when the final battle for consciousness itself raged across multiple universes. Pullman revisits his characters at crucial points in their journeys. The scenes reveal new angles on familiar events and fill spaces between the action readers already know. Each vignette captures these figures at moments that shaped their destinies and the fate of all worlds.
Genres: science-fiction, literary-fiction, adventure, fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: chosen-one, found-family, portal-fantasy
Setting: Oxford, Multiple Universes
Period: When Lyra Discovered the Alethiometer, When Will Cut Windows Between Worlds, Final Battle for Consciousness
87 pages · Hardcover · Scholastic