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Philip Pullman is working on a sequel to His Dark Materials, one of the greatest fantasy trilogies ever. I’ll buy it. I just know it. Good writing, good characters, interesting ideas. Does it get any better? I don’t necessarily agree with everything Pullman comes off with, but you can’t beat the story and world he’s imagined.
In an interview with Literary Review, Pullman says thatThe Book of Dust will contain his response to accusations that the previous three books portrayed organised religion as exclusively repressive.
“This is a big subject and I’m writing a big, big book in order to deal precisely with that question,” he tells the magazine. “I don’t want to anticipate it too much by switching a light on the answer now. The interesting – the curious – question is, if people can be helped by something that is palpably not true, is this better than denying the thing that is not true and not being helped?”
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August 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I swear, if Pullman backpedals on religion and treats it with kit gloves to appease his god-loving detractors, I will personally tear him a new one.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
What an interesting quote. I’ve sold a pile of his books, they never seem to stay on the shelves long, but have not read him myself. You’ve got me curious…thanks
November 28th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I hope that Will is in “The Book Of Dust”. I wish that Will and Lyra could meet again. Without them together, the book just wouldn’t be the same. I hope they see each other again. If they don’t that would really stink. :( When I finished “The Amber Spyglass”, I didn’t feel like Lyra and Will should depart. It made me so mad at Pullman.
If they don’t see each other again in this book–or if Will isn’t even mentioned at all–then I will never live with myself. I am going to have to wait for 2 years or more just to check out that book…I hope he doesn’t disappoint me. Or anyone that wants Lyra and Will to meet again.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:48 am
I’m sure that our author will not disappoint us. While he does not give us the classic fairy-tale endings we all expect (case in point: Lyra and Will’s seperation, also Roger’s death), what he writes is GOOD. We all know that. Don’t we love The Amber Spyglass despite it’s ending? I honestly don’t think we’d love it nearly as much if it ended cheerfully. I mean, what would keep us so hooked and looking for more? I’m glad that i’ve come to terms with the ending he chose…I hope all of you can, too. (yeah, don’t worry, i cried myself to sleep for a couple of nights after finishing that book.)
Any ways, I love his writing (have u checked out his other books, btw? LOVE Sally L!) and I know that The Book of Dust will be worth the wait, as will the other two companion books coming out (i don’t remember names, but they will be like Lyra’s Oxford). EXCITING! I can hardly wait.
All our expectations are not in vain!
December 9th, 2007 at 1:13 am
i loved Pullman’s books but he’s said that Lyra and will won’t meet again. he’s wrenching my heart out. i’m dying to see Will and Lyra meet again. in my mind of course. i’ve been searching everywhere to see if he’s written a book about what happens to Will after the amber spyglass. the amber spyglass was sad and sort of boring and anti-climactic with too many loosends to be my favorite like the other two but the whole Will and Lyra thing was so sad it made me cry for so long. hoping pullman would write something with Will adn Lyra. i want to know if they ever find anyone and if Will ever gets married and all that stuff so if anyone knows if Pullman wrote a obook about about that or if he’s planning to. i need to know
December 9th, 2007 at 1:15 am
we need to plead with Pullman. i want to send him a letter. i want him to write another book about Will anfd Lyra and the mended knife or any other way they meet.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:02 am
I think I read somewhere that Pullman has said in interviews that The Book of Dust will definitely NOT contain contain a story with Will and Lyra together. Of course like most I wish it were not the case, but I also have to face the possibility that maybe the sad ending is one of the reasons the trilogy was so good …
March 9th, 2008 at 3:26 am
I’m excited for the new book it’s been a long time coming, as much as I’d like to see Lyra and Will together in the story, I agree with chris that the sad ending is one of the reasons the books are so great. I also don’t want him to change the stance the books have taken on religion, if some churchies don’t like it then don’t read the books!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Just finished Amber Spyglass and I’ve been depressed for a week. I loved the ending, but it was so heartwrenching.
I can’t wait for this book to be completed so that I can hopefully get a sense that the Lyra and Will find some happiness apart.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:53 am
The amber spyglass was the worst book of the trilogy. If it wouldn’t be for the last 3 chapters, where Pullman’s main characters finally became shape and act human, I wouldn’t even consider to buy “The book of Dust”. The sad ending causes that I would like to know how the story continues and if it’s just to see if Lyra and Will meet each other again. The end in Amber Spyglass makes no sense at all: Why they couldn’t make the ONE window smaller and therefore get another one. For hundreds of years these windows exist and now just another one will kill all worlds? All the time Lyra and Will did what they want and now a rebel angel tells them what they should do and they did it. Not convincing for me, sorry. However, if the “book of dust” appears just as a kind of short stories book, where Will and Lyra are not acting or Will is completely let out, I will not even read the book. Pullman’s world is not that wonderful that I am interested in another zeppelin who get shot down or even another boy killed by Lord A.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
i think that his dark materiales trilogy was very good. if will and lyra don’t meet again than it only reinforses the fact that mr. pullman is a excallant writer, though i think that the amber spyglass hinted that they would when it said that angels could travel through the worlds without a knife and i think he said you could be taught how. peace.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Doesn’t anyone think that the tragic ending of The Amber Spyglass is what makes it so great? If he watered it down and got them back together i think i’d feel that he sold out. Looking forward to The Book Of Dust, hope he continues the brilliance of all the previous dark materials novels.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I agree with Lionardo.
First of all, I need to see the two of them togethor. Sad endings, just don’t suit me. His Dark Materials is certainly no exception.
More importantly, what about all that hinting of being able to travel through worlds like angels? And that one of Will’s friends is some how
related to this? I dunno if I’m some sort of crazy optimist, but that ending was completely devastating. I’m in love with the series I am, but
really, they belong togethor. I hope Pullman doesn’t disappoint.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Well, Lionardo and Karishma, about that “travel through worlds like angels” thing, the
“friend of Will’s” is actually Mary Malone. You remember how she once floated out of her body and joined the course of the Dust particles?
She’s the friend and that were only “the first steps” according to Xaphania.
I think Will & Lyra can NEVER touch each other(this way) but they could mentally travel between the worlds.
And what John Parry did to Lee Scoresby the night he brought two zeppelins down… I don’t know if Lee was really up there or just feeling like being up there…
May 16th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I really think that will and lyra will see eachother again
thought as to how I can only speculate as to whether it will be in person or spirituatlly or what. However if you purchased a novel that included the lantern slides section there are several things hinting at more journeys to come involving both of them, seperate or not. Either way I cannot wait to read the Book of dust. My biggest hope is that the storie will still be just as good as before with the new plot that this book being written as a companion rather than a sequel will require. I also look forward to seeing how he intends to masterfully answer his critics while still including it in the storie line. Once again I cannot wait.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:54 am
When is this book coming out!. I really do hope Will and Lyra meet again, I was so depressed after reading The Amber Spyglass, In my opinion it was a terrible ending.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Im sure they will not meet again, everytime i read this book series im plunged into a state of depression for a long time because it is soo sad. Even though i desperatly want them to meet again i doubt they will which is why I dont think id be able to read the book of dust because Id keep wishing for something i know couldnt possibly happen.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
i loved the three books ,i felt really down when i finished them, i wish lyra and will could have stayed together but happy endings are a thing we want but are so rear, so wile i wait for the book of dust I’ve just got , lyra’s oxford and once upon a time in the north !
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I also really hope that Lyra and Will will meet again in the book of dust. There are two key things that is keeping my hope alive of this possibility:
1) Will KEPT the pieces of the knife after he broke it. Maybe he’ll get fed up one day and mend it…
2) The angel DID hint there was a way for them to travel between worlds without the windows. Maybe some angels will come and teach them.
This is really just hopefully thinking, I’m pretty sure Pullman is gonna keep them apart because at some points in the Amber Spyglass it was talking about how Will and Lyra would remember each other when they were much older. But we can always hope.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I agree, I think that Pullman will keep them apart–which really irks me. Im pretty sure ive read interviews where he confirmed this, and the aforementioned sections in Amber Spyglass really speak for themselves. Honestly, I did think that the end of was the best part of Amber Spyglass, HOWEVER, it was not at all the best part of the series. Really, whats the point of him keeping them apart? I think it felt right for the end of the series, but that was when he never intended to return to it. It was an ending that really kicked our butts, and that closed the series forever. But now that he’s reopening it, It wouldnt feel right to keep Will out of it. For this reason, Im skeptical that he can ever make it as good as it once was. It seems like he wants to make a sequel to Golden Compass rather than the whole series, because from what Ive read he’ll probably be limiting himself to that world and the characters in it. For me, Golden Compass was the best book in the trilogy, but because Subtle Knife was so much about Will, and Amber Spyglass about them both, I think that The Book of Dust, not matter how involved, is going to be just as disappointing as Lyra’s Oxford. How can he return to a story when he ended it so concretely, unless he introduces a new threat and finds a new way to bring them together again–time and again, we see that this is the only satisfying route a sequel can take. Yet Pullman showed us in Amber Spyglass that he could fall victim to the curse of the third act, when he deviates from the tone and mastery in the other two novels. Thus, I expect that he will also produce an unsatisfying sequel, because even if he successfully creates an interesting new story, there will be no progress made from A.S. Imagine if Frodo hadnt left in the end and Tolkien had written an installment about his later days and “adventuring” in the Shire–It would be a poor companion to the epic adventure before. If Pullman does not intend to completely reopen (from a new angle) the story he so definitely ended, and make a new adventure for his characters, he should not return to the world. He needs to learn that it is always the characters, narrative, and language/images that make a story great, not philosophical ideas. I couldnt care less about his religious and scientific ideas, I only care how they affect his characters. It sounds like he is using this new book to expound upon his Deep Hidden Meaning rather than tell a good story.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
What I’ve always thought was why didn’t Will and Lyra consider using two lodestone resonators? If they learned how to use those, then they could instantly communicate with each other anytime they wanted. In addition, Mary has the ability to use those Chinese Divination Sticks, while Lyra will in time regain some of her Alitheometer skills. I see no reason why Will and Lyra can’t communicate with each other in time. If they were to become proficient enough between them with the use of the Alitheometer and the Divination sticks, perhaps they could help each other build their own lodestone resonators in time. As for them actually meeting in person again, I think they may have to find an Angel sympathetic to their cause, or a witch that found a window that the Angels may have missed.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Pullman left too many loose ends to bring the story to a concrete end and that Will and Lyra should see each other again ( after all, someone has scratched Lyra+Will into the bench in Oxford botanical gardens). The lantern slides (mentioned in comment 15) do hint quite strongly at them seeing each other again. Also, there are several loopholes in their separation, far beyond those listed in other comments so there is no physical reason why they can’t see each other again. As for starting it from a new angle, well, that’s possible: Will’s angle. All the follow-up books so far have been set in Lyra’s world and never featured Will. If a book were written about Will, perhaps in an adventure that brings him closer to uncovering the secret of seeing Lyra again and then finishing off in a grand crescendo where Will and Lyra meet again in a final adventure to bring the magisterium to its knees (or something like that) then and only then can we say “concrete ending achieved”. The powerful, sad effect of the ending of The Amber Spyglass can be maintained by keeping them apart for a long time, say 7 or 8 years. I have seen this done in many books, namely Gary Kilworth’s House of Tribes where the main character, a mouse, leaves his home in a hedge for what you think will be the rest of his short life when, in fact, he returnes there in his final days after many adventures and heroic deeds in a large house. I have also noticed it twice in the His Dark Materials trilogy: 1) When Serafina Pekkala leaves to look for Lee scoresby at the end of The Subtle Knife and she unexpectedly reappears 500 pages later at the end of Amber Spyglass and 2) when they suddenly come across Lee Scoresby in the world of the dead.I think I have covered all possible problems with Will and Lyra meeting again and hope that they do so because the ending of The Amber Spyglass was VERY sad.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Paul: What are those lantern slides you and the person who wrote comment 15 talking about?
July 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I do hope that The Book of Dust will come out real soon!!!!I also hope that Will and Lyra see each other again that would be VERY nice after the VERY SAD ending in The Abmer Spyglass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 11th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
The ending of the Amber Spyglass completely depressed me and I can’t see how Pullman can be so cruel as to let Lyra and Will, two characters loved by many fans, be parted until they die. He wouldn’t! As for the religious objections, I myself am a Christian and see no problem in reading and enjoying the world that Pullman has created. It’s fiction!
September 15th, 2008 at 12:14 am
i think that the book of dust is just the beginning for something much larger, maybe even a whole new seiries Mabye they discover a way to make a window dust wont escape i know its kinda optimistic but i really want to see them together again
September 15th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
what are you talking about the end of the book was pretty happy if you read between the lines you’d see the end of the books was happy. You know how Phillip Pullman said they wouldn’t meet in the book of dust that doesn’t mean they won’t meet in the next book after the book of dust
October 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
i read that the book of dust will be set before the events of his dark materils and will be an in depth story about lee scoresby and iorek byrnison
October 9th, 2008 at 10:51 am
when did philip pullman say they wouldn’t meet in the book of dust and they don’t need to the angel xaphania said they could learn the angels way of getting into other worlds plus the angel says that to do it you need to half see or imagine then says they know someone who has taken their first steps on doing it and i figured it would be mary malone because serafina pekkala taught her how to see other peoples deamons by half looking so will could ask mary to teach him that and then will could figure the rest out
October 9th, 2008 at 10:55 am
and it says the angel can see further than the children and holds some hope for them
December 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I also was very upset that Lyra and Will had to part at the end. And it doesn’t make sense to me. Pullman talks about the physical, now world as being the most important, and that includes love and sex and relationships. He also asserts the importance of individual free will. So why should the two be forced to be “dutiful” and sacrifice their own love for the good of others in the future? That just sounds weirdly close to priests sacrificing their lives for the church. Wouldn’t the example of two loving heroic people together be more inspiring for positive change than two brokenhearted, lonely, yet brave, people?
December 27th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Will should move to Florida and sell real estate, just like in ‘David Copperfield’.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I actually want to add up to what Rhys said back in October. Xaphania also said that after Metatron had fallen they would look for a new leader. With Lyra and the prophecy that she is the new Eve such a new Authority should assume that she will be the mother of a new mankind. And who else but Will could be Adam, the father for that new mankind? If the authority is against her (s)he also will have to be against Will. In the letters in “Once Upon a Time in the North” Lyra is in her twenties, the perfect age for another adventure followed by some kids.
And finally in “Lyra’s Oxford” the alchemist Makepeace said that he will talk about what he is really doing some when later. As in such a short connecting story nothing would be said without a reason – I wonder why Oxford is protecting Lyra – there is still some hope…
February 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Guys, I appreciate we all want Will and Lyra to get back together. I don’t think anyone can say they don’t. But if they do meet again, then it will totally undermine all that they went through and essentially what the whole series is about. Doesn’t anyone understand this? Maybe they will see each other gain for a tiny, fraction of time, but I sadly don’t think that they will ever be together in the way we all want them to be. I personally think the book of Dust will explain some of Lyra’s world’s mysteries to us, and tell us what they’ve all been up to.
One thing we can all look forward to, though. At the very end of The Amber Spyglass, Pan says he and Kirjava will tell their humans what they did when they were parted for a while. That will probably be revealed in The Book of Dust.
February 5th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Ok, here’s what the book of dust is gonna have.
Lyra at an age of 16-25, going on an adventure.
What Makepeace is really working on.
What Pan and Kirjava did when they were away, in Amber Spyglass.
How Farder Coram and Serafina Pekkala met and fell in love.
How Coulter and Asriel met and fell in love.
Lyra learning to read the alethiometer again.
And that’s all I know about whats in it.
And yes everyone wants Will and Lyra, to meet again, but that would defeat alot of the meanings of the trilogy’s ending. But doesn’t anyone remember what Xaphania said at the end of Amber Spyglass? She said that there is a way of traveling to other worlds, without using windows. She said it was like a state of mind. She said it took a long time to learn, but that it was true, you really can travel to another world by using your mind and no window. The also have at the end of spyglass about how Mary Malone can use a certain state of mind to see her daemon, and other people’s daemons. Pullman also refers to the state of mind lyra has to achieve to read the alethiometer, how it is the same state of mind Will needs to achieve to use the knife. Mary specifically says at the end of spyglass that the state of mind she needs to achieve to see her daemon is very similar to the state of mind lyra needs for the alethiometer. My point being, that this whole state of mind thing the three of them use could be more than it seems to be, that if they can use that state of mind then they can probably achieve the state of mind that is necessary to travel to other worlds, meaning that will and lyra COULD, technically be together.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:27 am
this is something I think is being overlooked, at the end of the book of dust Pan said “build what?” is it not possible that thing they are supposed to build will be brought up in a story
March 7th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I’m a bit confused. A few people have mentioned “lantern slides” that supposedly suggest something about Lyra and Will seeing eachother again. Anyone care to explain?
March 12th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Help! Just finished The Amber Spyglass.
Why do we not know if Lyra has asked about her parents? The war just sort of stopped. Is it because Asrial realized that his only
purpose was to save Lyra? Does Lyra even know that they loved her?
I am still sort of upset over Lyra leaveing Pan. I know she had to but did that change their relationship? What did Pan and Will’s
daemon do while they were gone?
March 15th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Are there any specifics on when itll be released? All i know is 2009. Is that a confirmation or is there still teh possibility of it not coming out this year at all?
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
It’s been a good year since I first read the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy and there easily the best books I’ve read in my life. That’s saying something because I’m more of an history reader of authors such as Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. But there was so much stuff I loved about HDM, I don’t mind admitting that I to found the ending indeed sad, I couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks.
While it was a sad ending, I’m positive Will & Lyra won’t be seeing each other in The Book of Dust. Infact Pullman as stated it will be set after the events of Lyra’s Oxford which makes me think it surrounds Lyra’s World. Strangely while Pullman hinted that the end of the trilogy was a full stop and everything was wrapped up, he as also contradicted himself by hinting at future developments, though all good authors keep loose ends open.
The Book of Dust is still set for a 2009 release and it as to be released eventually!! Pullman as stated it’s a full length novel and is no longer long a different mix of seperate tales as was once mentioned. I have to agree with Baeo in that I sense The Book of Dust is the beginning of a bigger tale, possibly another trilogy, I find it hard to believe this will just be a one book story. I’m not sure what I hope it to be, but I found Lyra’s Oxford to be small but delightful because I got to spend time in her world again and if The Book of Dust does that, then I’d be happy.
I really hope it does come out this year, this and Bernard Cornwell’s ‘Burning Lands’ would make my reading year.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
i really think they should meet up again, i cryed for so long i thought i was going to die. there the perfect match. if they dont meet up again,……….its pretty much going to suck. i think will should make a hole as small as an ant so only a little dust can go through but he can make it bigger without making a new hole. for a second it would be big enough for a person to go thru , and he would close it up to the size of an ant, but not all the way.
will should have kept the knife, the next book would be 20 years later when he forgot about it and he would find it and would remember lyra and go into her world and look for her.
when they fell in love i felt like i was in love, but then when i herd how soon, they would never see each other gain i cryed and cryed for so long i felt so bad.
i hope the book of dust has them in it or i am going to be mad
also if anyone knows the date of when the book is coming out post it
April 26th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
we should make pullman write a book with them in it
May 15th, 2009 at 7:10 am
To all you people desperatly hoping for Will and Lyra to be reunited, I understand what you’re feeling, I felt it to. The trilogy is so good we felt sympathy for these characters when they were very sad. But I have to break it to you, Will and Lyra won’t physically, meet again. I know you all hope the Book of Dust will contain some story regarding Will/Lyra finding out the angel was lying or something, and that Will/Lyra will find a window and go on another adventure. This would be extremely cheesy, think about it, PP casts aside everything building up in the amber spyglass and reuniting them. That is just pointless and would ruin the series.
When the angel said they could meet each other through other means, she said through imagination, which she also highlighted as not being unreal, but sort of like a spiritual connection. That is what Will and Lyra already do every midsummer’s day, they go to the bench in the botanic garden and be together, in a mental sort of way. A person earlier mentioned Mary getting seperated from her body into the dust flow, Will/Lyra might be able to do this, but it would kill whatever mortal attempting it. Their consciousness requires their body to stay intact (unless you die the normal way, e.g being shot, naturally, so that your death comes and takes you to the world of the dead).
Remember Mary’s dreading feeling about fading into oblivion? She was just barely able to regain control of her body. Will can’t mend the knife because he simply wouldn’t. It’s against his character. He’s to honerable to break his promise with the dead. The only thing I think is a little funny and weird is, you’d think the dead could wait a little longer (at least for them, some waited millions of years) to rejoin the universe. Can’t they just wait 60-70 years for Will and Lyra to stay together for their lives, then when Will is old and knows he will die soon, he could cut a whole to the world of the dead and close the one between Lyra’s and his world? But no, Pullman covered his tracks their to, Lyra and Will need to build the republic of heaven (for those that didn’t understand, this means that they have to spread love and joy to everyone, remove the shackles from religously opressed people, etc.). So Will and Lyra have to spend all the time they have spreading Love and joy, so even if it was possible to be together, they couldn’t. So in concluson, Lyra and Will can’t and won’t meet again until they die.
Speaking of that, there’s sort of a weird part in that. Remember how Lyra said that if they fall in love again, they shouldn’t be mean to the person they’re in love with by always thinking about each other (will and lyra), but afterwords, when they were crying, they said they’d meet each other in the underworld and go back into the universe together, did anyone stop and think about the guy who was married to Lyra and the woman married to will? No they get right down to the underworld and its right off out that door and split into little atoms together. This is probaly what happened:
Will and Lyra leave through the underworlds window,
Guy: What the hell? Wheres Lyra?
Girl: Who the $%^$ was that with Will? Was he seeing someone?
Guy: Hey you’re hot! Lets split apart into atoms together!
Girl: You’re not so bad yourself! That sounds awsome! Lead me to it!
May 20th, 2009 at 8:03 am
No, in the whole ‘meeting together i think what the angel meant was that they could see each other again in the way that John Parry was able to see the other worlds by leaving his body. He knew all about Cittegazz before he even went there cos he could travel there out of body. That they could learn to do it and that Mary Malone was already taking steps to learn.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
People are saying that they want Lyra & Will meet again. I think they won’t meet again in ”the book of dust”. Maybe in a book he will write after ”the book of dust”, or maby they will meet each other, but in an other way, PP is a Good writer, you will never know where PP is thinking about!!
And Sorry for my bad English, I’m a Dutch girl, :)
And… Does anyone knows the release date??
I heard end 2009, but I don’t know!!
July 26th, 2009 at 10:08 am
I thoroughly enjoyed the HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, it was immensely captivating. I have been surfing for the BOOK OF DUST since 2008 and I hope that book is incoherently thick because it is taking quite long. I know he is really attempting to make it the best he has written so THANK YOU PHILIP PULLMAN FOR BEING THE BEST AUTHOR IN THE WORLD!!!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
In regards to what the book of dust will be about i think it will be a bit of a fantasy encyclopedia, full of short stories and
explaining things like:
how the magisterium was formed,how the mulefa developed,the republic of heaven, the world of the dead, what their Daemons did
together and obviously dust, also i have hunch that Lee’s mothers ring will make an appearance in the book.
So it seems it’s a book which is full of tying up loose ends.
Secondly: Lyra and will can’t get together or the previous two books will be ruined and all PP’s work undone, he doesn’t take me
as a stephanie meyer type. I think why the books stick in our minds is because of the amber spyglass ending, if it was
different it wouldn’t be as reknowned as the books are. The reason why PP is so good is because of his unorthodox endings.
Lets hope the book of dust is as good as the other three and the wait was worth it.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I reckon Will and Lyra will meet again before they die. The angel Xaphania tells Will that there is another way to go between worlds apart from the knife and that one of his friends has already taken the first steps. The only real friends that Will has are Lyra, his daemon and Mary towards the end. Lyra doesn’t know, Mary doesn’t know (because this is before she learns to see her daemon) and his daemon was missing for quite a while before the tragic truth is revealed. Towards the end Lyra asks her daemon about what Will’s daemon and himself were up to while they were missing. He tells her that Will and herself will find out when the time is right. Is it possible that the two daemons have found a way to cross worlds without the knife? I know it sounds far-fetched but it all links together quite well unless I have missed something.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
the new book wont be the same without characters like lord asriel and mrs chole, or if it goes with out mentioning will
but who knows all i want is to have that new book
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Sorry to be really rude, but several of the people who’ve posted – obviously didn’t really read the books. Perhaps they should try again – People have missed whole sections of the book. “When Serafina Pekkala leaves to look for Lee scoresby at the end of The Subtle Knife and she unexpectedly reappears 500 pages later at the end of Amber Spyglass ” – The book states she goes off to find and bring the Gyptians. “So why should the two be forced to be “dutiful” and sacrifice their own love for the good of others in the future?” They aren’t. They understand the implications and choose to make the sacrifice themselves, in full knowledge of their actions. “this is something I think is being overlooked, at the end of the book of dust Pan said “build what?” is it not possible that thing they are supposed to build will be brought up in a story” – No, you’re missing the last line. ‘And then what?’ said her dæmon sleepily. ‘Build what?’ ‘The Republic of Heaven,” said Lyra.
October 12th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
When will the The book of DUst come out???
October 13th, 2009 at 10:53 am
When will TBoD be out? Nobody seems to know right now. But you can check out Amazon, they for sure will have the book for pre-order some months in advance. But they don’t have it yet… *sigh*
April 15th, 2010 at 11:37 am
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I so wanted will and lyra to stay together. I WANT THEM TO GET BACK TOGETHER. PP sucks why would he do that? omg that is so stupid. I don’t like sad endings and i bet none of you people out there do.
if anyone knows if they get back together
TELLLLLLL MEEEEEEEE
April 16th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Is this the longest lived thread on Bookninja? Seriously, how do people keeping finding this?
(Yeah, yeah, I know Google probably; I vowed if I ever saw another post on this thread I would ask).
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Has anyone heard anything about the release date for The Book of Dust? I’ve been waiting for this book since it was announced in 2007. 2009 came and went and I’ve not been able to find any new information on this book.
Waiting for it is torture!!!!!
October 31st, 2011 at 5:14 pm
From what I’ve read, there’s still no release date but Philip Pullman as said that it’s possible the Book of Dust will come in two parts now. He’s already said its a big book.
Interesting, wasn’t The Book of Dust originally planned as a small side story. :D Sounds like it’ll rival the trilogy now.
February 11th, 2012 at 11:22 am
the book of Dust is said not to come out for another 2 years so we will have to wait a bit longer:(.
i agree that Lyra and Will should be together but it is unlikly they shall meet again but mrPP kind-of hinted they could meet again on his website on a arnser to some ones question
well we all hope the wait will be worth it and Lyra and Will meet again
February 23rd, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I personally love the ending to the Amber spy glass, the trilogy is an amazing work and I admire pullman for writing in sucj detail. The Book of Dust will be in two volumes. Phillup Pullman has given no hints as to why it’s taken so long… he just says it is a big,big book.
August 5th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
You know, I’d be frustrated by the waiting if I hadn’t taken up writing again this year. It takes time and effort to write quality, so it shouldn’t be a surprise it’s taking him this long. I’m happily willing to wait for The Book of Dust. The people who care will still care in two years time I’m sure.
As for the ending, bravo to Mr Pullman for going against the grain and not providing a ‘and they lived happily ever after’ ending. Thought it ended wonderfully well, not matter how touching he wrote Lyra and Will’s relationship, not having them be together is the reason the Book of Dust as so much anticipation. Be patient, writing good stories takes forever.