Northern Lights (novel)
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| Author | Philip Pullman |
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| Cover artist | David Scutt and Pullman |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | His Dark Materials |
| Genre | Children's fantasy novel, steampunk |
| Publisher | Scholastic Point |
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July 1995 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 399 pp |
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| OCLC | 37806360 |
| LC Class | PZ7.P968 No 1995 PZ7.P968 Go 1996 |
| Preceded by | Once Upon a Time in the North |
| Followed by | The Subtle Knife |
Northern Lights (known as The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published by Scholastic UK in 1995. Set in a parallel universe, it features the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as "dust".
Northern Lights is the first book of a trilogy, His Dark Materials (1995 to 2000).Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, entitled The Golden Compass. Under that title it has been adapted as a 2007 feature film by Hollywood and as a companion video game.
Pullman won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding British children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal, it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel, composing the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.Northern Lights won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" on 21 June 2007.
The novel is set in a world dominated by an international theocracy, the Magisterium (also commonly called "the Church"), which actively suppresses heresy. In this world, humans' souls naturally exist outside of their bodies in the form of sentient "dæmons": talking animal spirits that constantly accompany, aid, and comfort their humans. Children's dæmons can freely and instantaneously change their appearance into that of any real or mythical creature; once people reach puberty, however, their dæmons settle into one permanent form.
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