The Amber Spyglass

Author	Philip Pullman
Cover artist	Philip Pullman & David Scutt
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	His Dark Materials
Genre(s)	Fantasy novel
Publisher	Scholastic Point
Publication date	November 14, 2001
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	560 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-439-99358-X
Preceded by	The Subtle Knife

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The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, a prestigious British literature award.^[1]

The Amber Spyglass deals most strongly with religious and metaphysical ideas, depicting the foreshadowed re-enactment of Milton's Paradise Lost,^[2] and finally elaborating upon the nature of Dust. For other persons named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation). ... Title page of the first edition (1667) Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. ... Spoiler warning: Dust in Philip Pullmans trilogy of novels His Dark Materials is a fictional form of dark matter (as we call it in our world), an elementary particle that is of fundamental importance to the novels. ...

Plot summary

Lyra has been taken by her mother, Marisa Coulter, to a remote cave in the Himalayas of their own world, where she is kept in a drugged sleep. In this state, Lyra dreams that she is in a wasteland talking to her dead friend Roger, whom she promises to help. Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... For other uses, see Dream (disambiguation). ...

In Cittàgazze, a pair of angels named Balthamos and Baruch tell Will that they have come to take him, the bearer of the subtle knife, to Lord Asriel. Will refuses to go until Lyra is rescued, to which the two assent. Will and the angels are attacked by a soldier of the archangel Metatron, the Authority's Regent. Will cuts a window into another world to escape. The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni wears a late Roman military outfit in this 17th century depiction An angel is a supernatural being found in many religions. ... Balthamos is an angel who appears in The Amber Spyglass, which is part of the His Dark Materials series of fantasy novels by author Philip Pullman. ... Baruch also refers to an angel who appears in the novel, The Amber Spyglass of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials series. ... For the Darkwell album, see Metatron (album). ... In Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy, The Authority is the equivalent of God. ... Regent, from the Latin, a person selected to administer a state because the ruler is a minor or is not present or debilitated. ...

A sect of the Magisterium called the Consistorial Court of Discipline learns where Lyra, considered the next Eve, is being held. They send out a small army to capture and kill her. They also know that a woman, Mary Malone, is fated to play the role of the serpent, tempting Lyra; therefore they send a priest named Father Gomez to follow Mary and subsequently kill Lyra.

Lord Asriel sends out a small army to Lyra's cave, to counteract the zeppelins from the Consistorial Court. He also sends two Gallivespian spies, the Chevalier Tialys and the Lady Salmakia, to protect Lyra. Gallivespians resemble humans, but are approximately four inches tall. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... This is an article about Zeppelin airships. ... A Gallivespian is a fictional creature invented by Philip Pullman for his bestselling trilogy of novels His Dark Materials. ...

Mary Malone, who has stepped through a window from the reader's world into Cittàgazze, eventually goes through another window into a stranger world. She finds a group of elephantine creatures who call themselves mulefa and travel by attaching round seedpods to their feet and using them as wheels. These creatures have a complex culture, intricate language and an infectious laugh; as a result, Mary begins to think of them as her equals. Eventually, Mary is absorbed into mulefa community, where she learns that the trees from which the seedpods are gathered are becoming extinct, and have been so for 300 years. Mary, to further understand this problem constructs a telescope out of sap lacquer that allows her to see Dust. It seems to be flying off into the distance in large streams, rather than falling downward and nourishing the trees on which the mulefa mutually depend. Cittàgazze (sometimes abbreviated to Cigazze), meaning City of the Magpies, is a fictional city within an unknown world (and parallel universe) in the bestselling fantasy fiction trilogy, His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. ... Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas antiquus † Elephas beyeri † Elephas celebensis † Elephas cypriotes † Elephas ekorensis † Elephas falconeri † Elephas iolensis † Elephas planifrons † Elephas platycephalus † Elephas recki † Stegodon † Mammuthus † Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea... The mulefa are a fictional race of alien beings who inhabit a parallel Earth in the novel The Amber Spyglass, the third part of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. ... A ripe red jalapeño cut open to show the seeds For other uses, see Seed (disambiguation). ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. ... A year (from Old English gÄ“r) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The abbreviation, acronym, or initialism SAP has several different meanings: SAP AG, a German software company, or its various products such as SAP R/3 or SAP Business Information Warehouse second audio program (television) Session Announcement Protocol Soritong audio player Simple As Possible Computer Architecture Structural Adjustment Program of the...

Will meets Iorek Byrnison, the king of the armored Panserbjørne, whose people are migrating south to avoid the Arctic melt caused by global warming. Iorek agrees to help rescue Lyra. Here, global warming is associated with similar disasters taking place throughout many worlds as a result of the upheavals regarding Dust. Iorek Byrnison is a Panserbjørne (armoured bear) from Philip Pullmans trilogy His Dark Materials. ... In Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials novels, the Panserbjørne (armoured bears in Danish) are large polar bears which are most of times covered in a invulnerable cloud-iron armor. ... A compass rose with South highlighted South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected...

Three forces--Will, Iorek, and Balthamos; Lord Asriel's army; and the Church's army--converge on Mrs. Coulter's cave. Will is able to wake Lyra. He is cutting a window into another world when Mrs. Coulter turns and looks directly at him. For a moment, Will is reminded of his own mother; as a result, his concentration falters, and the knife shatters. Because the window he has cut is open, Will, Lyra, and the Gallivespian spies manage to escape to another world. In chemistry, concentration is the measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance. ...

Lord Asriel's forces capture Mrs. Coulter, who escapes and flies off to tell the Consistorial Court everything she knows. The Consistorial Court of Discipline arrests Mrs. Coulter; therefore she allies herself with Roke and Asriel. This side of the war wants to preserve Dust, not destroy it, for they see the Church as trying to take all enjoyment out of life by categorizing as "sin" that which is is not evil. For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Sin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Evil (disambiguation). ...

Iorek Byrnison repairs the subtle knife. Will, Lyra, Tialys and Salmakia enter the world of the dead, leaving their dæmons (worldly identities) behind. Lyra finds Roger in the crowd of ghosts. Will and the Gallivespians decide that the ghosts must be freed from this world, which Will considers a prison camp; therefore they decide to go to the highest point in the land of the dead, where Will cuts a door into another world. At this, the ghosts step through and dissolve into nature. For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ... “Natural” redirects here. ...

The final battle begins. John Parry and Lee Scoresby hold themselves together when they leave the world of the dead and join Lord Asriel's army to fight the spectres. A Spectre is a fictional being invented by the fantasy fiction author Philip Pullman for his trilogy, His Dark Materials. ...

Mrs. Coulter enters the Clouded Mountain, citadel of the Authority, where she meets the Regent Metatron. Mrs. Coulter manipulates Metatron by offering him Lord Asriel's life. This is similar to the means by which Lyra had tricked Iofur Raknison, Iorek's rival for kingship of the bears; in that Lyra had used Iofur's desire to become human to trick him, much as her mother uses Metatron's desire to experience sensual pleasure to confuse him. Mrs. Coulter betrays Metatron to Lord Asriel, on the grounds that Lyra is precious to both of them. All three tumble into an abyss. Look up desire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An abyss (Greek: a-, privative, bussos, bottom) is a bottomless depth; hence any deep place. ...

Will and Lyra enter the world of the mulefa. They grab their dæmons immediately before doing so; the dæmons run off again.

Lyra and Will's dæmons return and tell them that all the windows between the worlds must be closed, as Dust is leaking out of them all the time. Furthermore, every time a window is made, a Spectre is created; therefore the knife must be destroyed altogether. The angels will allow one window to remain open: the one leading out of the land of the dead. Because Will and Lyra have fallen in true love with each other upon the onset of puberty, and because they cannot live together, this information deeply saddens them. Puberty refers to the process of physical changes by which a childs body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. ...

Lyra returns to Jordan College, where she had lived for many years. Because she can no longer read the alethiometer, having lost the subconscious innocence that enabled her to read it by instinct, she decides to study alethiometry at a special school. Hereinafter, she and daemon Pantalaimon will follow John Parry's suggestion to build the idealized Republic of Heaven at home. Will, too, returns to his world.

See also

• 2000 in literature
• His Dark Materials

See also: 1999 in literature, other events of 2000, 2001 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The trilogy (U.K versions), in order of succession from left to right. ...

Further reading

• Lenz, Millicent (2005). His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Phillip Pullman's Trilogy. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3207-2. 
• Frost, Laurie (2006). The Elements of His Dark Materials. The Fell Press. 

References

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External links

• His Dark Materials | BridgeToTheStars.Net
• HisDarkMaterials.org
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