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The Amber Spyglass

Book 3 of His Dark Materials

  • 536 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 2000
  • 87 editions

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1 About this book

In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek Byrnison the armored bear and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent Amber Spyglass. An assassin hunts her down, and Lord Asriel, with a troop of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, in a battle of strange allies—and shocking sacrifice.

As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living—and the dead—finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story.

Good for readers who want: fantasy, science fiction, magic, and a long read.

  • Fantasy
  • Quests (Expeditions)
  • Magic
  • Science fiction
  • Missing persons
  • Good and evil
  • Kidnapping
  • Imaginary places

2 About Philip Pullman

Born 1946

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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