Lyra's Oxford

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author:	Philip Pullman

A short story about one of Lyra’s many adventures. This is set 2 years after the amber spyglass. Lyra’s grown up, and studying at St. Sophia. She and Pan are still hanging out on Jordan college rooftop, to study and just bask in the moonlight. Now, she has a key to get there all the time. One time, they saw a witch deamon being attacked by a herd of birds. Lyra and Pan helped the witch deamon to safety. This deamon was looking for Mr. Makepeace in Jericho. Lyra promised to accompany the deamon after school. She asks around where to find this Mr. Alchemist and learns that he is a mad alchemist. Lyra, Pan and the deamon now walk to Jericho. The deamon says that he needs a cure that Makepeace has because his witch is sick. Upon arriving on the house, Lyra sees a witch. This is the witch of the deamon. Pan wrestles the deamon and Lyra attempts to fight the witch. Suddenly a flock of swans attacks the witch and she eventually dies. Mr. Makepeace tells Lyra that the deamon tried to trick her. The witch’s plan was to kill Lyra and blame Mr. Makepeace for it. Makepeace was once the lover of the witch. Their son died in the battle for Lord Asriel and she scorns Lyra for it. It is also revealed that Mr. Makepeace is not an alchemist and is intent of studying something else. (will not be mentioned). The swans, and all the other birds in Oxford, were actually protecting Lyra from the evil deamon.




Thoughts:
It was nice to hear from Lyra again. She’s still the same old Lyra, great liar and is always in the middle of an adventure. After two years, she’s still longing for Will and keeps his memory with her, which is nice to know, but also quite sad. (move on!) It’s a very very short adventure and contains lots of description about Oxford. Which is of no interest to me, cause I haven’t been to the real Oxford.




Next Philip Pullman books still related to His Dark Materials? Still to be written and published! Check them out bellow---

Book of Dust:
It will follow Lyra, returning to her story two years after Lyra's Oxford, and will tie into that previous book. Lyra will be "about 16".The book will also be "about Dust" and will address the questions about the lack of portrayals of positive effects of religion in His Dark Materials, although it "will be not a continuation of the trilogy, but other stories about the same world and the same characters."

Once Upon a Time in the North:
Forthcoming fantasy short story by Phillip Pullman. It is a prequel to Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and will be published on April 3, 2008 in the United Kingdom. The premise of the story involves the meeting of Iorek Byrnison and Lee Scoresby--something that was originally suggested to be appearing in The Book of Dust. It will be printed in the format of a small blue book with several extras, much in the same way as Lyra’s Oxford.

[Untitled Will’s short story]
Lyra's Oxford was a dark red book. Once Upon a Time in the North will be a dark blue book. There still remains a green book. And that will be Will's book. Eventually...