"Northern Lights" at 30

"Northern Lights" at 30

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy taught me to distrust authority, and that we live in just one of many possible worlds ~ Taib Hayat ~ Set in a steampunk-themed alternate universe, the orphan girl Lyra grows up among scholars in a venerable British college. Reformation and Enlightenment never happened in her world, and the Catholic Church is the supreme political authority across Europe. Through her experiences at Jordan College, we se…