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unusual facts about His Dark Materials



Oxford–Cambridge rivalry

Oxford is featured more often in literature and the cinema; films with scenes shot in Oxford include Shadowlands and the Harry Potter movies, while Radcliffe Square was used in the filming of His Dark Materials: Northern Lights.

Svalbard in fiction

Svalbard is the home of the armored polar bears in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

The Amber Spyglass

The Amber Spyglass is the third and final novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by English author Philip Pullman, and published in 2000.

The Subtle Knife

The Subtle Knife, the second book in the His Dark Materials series, is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Philip Pullman and published in 1997.


see also

John Faa

In The Raiders, Faa is placed as a contemporary in south-west Scotland with of Grierson of Lag during the Killing Times, while in His Dark Materials he is moved to southern England in an alternate, somewhat Steampunk universe into a time which is apparently contemporary with our own.

Subtle

The Subtle Knife, a novel by Philip Pullman and the second book in the trilogy His Dark Materials