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Northern Lights (novel)

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Northern Lights (known as The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published by Scholastic UK in 1995. [1]

82 relations: Aeronautics, Alan Jacobs (academic), Aletheia, Alfred A. Knopf, Archbishop of Canterbury, Audiobook, AudioGO, Aurora, BBC, Bounty hunter, C. S. Lewis, Carnegie Medal (literary award), Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Chris Weitz, Christopher Lee, Compass, Compass (drawing tool), Consul (representative), Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Dæmon (His Dark Materials), Derek Jacobi, Dust (His Dark Materials), Elementary particle, Eva Green, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Heresy, His Dark Materials, His Dark Materials (play), Ian McKellen, Illuminated manuscript, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jo Wyatt, John Milton, Junk (novel), Juvenile fantasy, La Belle Sauvage, List of geometers, List of His Dark Materials characters, Locations in His Dark Materials, Lord Asriel, Lyra Belacqua, Manuscript (publishing), Marisa Coulter, Master (college), Middle Ages, Natasha Richardson, New Line Cinema, Nicole Kidman, Nomad, ..., Original sin, Paradise Lost, Parallel universes in fiction, Philip Pullman, Races and creatures in His Dark Materials, Rowan Williams, Royal National Theatre, Sam Elliott, Scholastic Corporation, Seán Barrett (actor), Sega, Sentience, Shapeshifting, Shiny Entertainment, Slavery, Steampunk, Stephen Thorne, Svalbard, Talking animals in fiction, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Daily Telegraph, The Golden Compass (film), The Golden Compass (video game), The Guardian, The Subtle Knife, Theism, Theocracy, Usurper, Wheaton College (Illinois), Whispers in the Graveyard, William Blake, World view. Expand index (32 more) »

Aeronautics

Aeronautics (from the ancient Greek words ὰήρ āēr, which means "air", and ναυτική nautikē which means "navigation", i.e. "navigation into the air") is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.

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Alan Jacobs (academic)

Alan Jacobs (born 1958) is a scholar of English literature, writer, and literary critic.

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Aletheia

Aletheia (Ancient Greek: ἀλήθεια) is revolution or rising in philosophy.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read.

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AudioGO

AudioGO (formerly BBC Audiobooks) was a publisher of audiobooks and a range of spoken word and large-print titles.

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Aurora

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bounty hunter

A bounty hunter is a person who captures fugitives and criminals for a monetary reward (bounty).

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Carnegie Medal (literary award)

The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new book for children or young adults.

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Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.

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Chris Weitz

Christopher John Weitz (born November 30, 1969) is an American filmmaker, author and occasional actor.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Compass

A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points).

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Compass (drawing tool)

A pair of compasses, also known simply as a bow compass, is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs.

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Consul (representative)

A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries.

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Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress.

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Daniel Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. He trained at the National Youth Theatre and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, before beginning his career on stage. His film debut was in the drama The Power of One (1992). Other early appearances were in the historical television war drama Sharpe's Eagle (1993), Disney family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996) and the biographical film Elizabeth (1998). Craig's appearances in the British television film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), the indie war film The Trench (1999), and the drama Some Voices (2000) attracted the film industry's attention. This led to roles in bigger productions such as the action film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), the crime thriller Road to Perdition (2002), the crime thriller Layer Cake (2004), and the Steven Spielberg historical drama Munich (2005). Craig achieved international fame when chosen as the sixth actor to play the role of Ian Fleming's British secret agent character James Bond in the film series, taking over from Pierce Brosnan in 2005. His debut film as Bond, Casino Royale, was released internationally in November 2006 and was highly acclaimed, earning him a BAFTA award nomination. Casino Royale became the highest-grossing in the series at the time. Quantum of Solace followed two years later. Craig's third Bond film, Skyfall, premiered in 2012 and is currently the highest-grossing film in the series and the fifteenth highest-grossing film of all time; it was also the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom until 2015. Craig's fourth Bond film, Spectre, premiered in 2015. He also made a guest appearance as Bond in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, alongside Queen Elizabeth II. Since taking the role of Bond, Craig has continued to star in other films, including the fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), World War II film Defiance (2008), science fiction western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the heist film Logan Lucky (2017).

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Dæmon (His Dark Materials)

A dæmon is a type of fictional being in the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials.

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Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi, (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and stage director.

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Dust (His Dark Materials)

In Philip Pullman's writings, Dust or Rusakov Particles are elementary particles associated with consciousness that are integral to the plot.

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Elementary particle

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle with no substructure, thus not composed of other particles.

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Eva Green

Eva Gaëlle Green (born 6 July 1980) is a French actress and model.

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Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognises one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom.

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Heresy

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization.

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His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials is an epic trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995) (published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).

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His Dark Materials (play)

His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright, adapted from the Philip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Jo Wyatt

Joanna Louise Wyatt (born 28 September 1970 in London, England) is an English actress and voice actress known for her voice as Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary and Little Miss Sunshine in The Mr. Men Show.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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Junk (novel)

Junk, known as Smack in the U.S., is a realistic novel for young adults by the British author Melvin Burgess, published in 1996 by Andersen in the U.K. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teens who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism.

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Juvenile fantasy

Juvenile fantasy is children's literature with fantasy elements: fantasy intended for readers not yet adult.

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La Belle Sauvage

La Belle Sauvage is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman published in 2017, the first volume in a planned trilogy named The Book of Dust.

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List of geometers

A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry.

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List of His Dark Materials characters

This is a list of characters from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and its successor, the Book of Dust trilogy.

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Locations in His Dark Materials

This article covers the fictional locations in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.

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Lord Asriel

Lord Asriel is a major character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

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Lyra Belacqua

Lyra Belacqua, also known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

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Manuscript (publishing)

"Manuscript" is a broad concept in publishing, that can refer to one or both of the following.

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Marisa Coulter

Marisa Coulter (née van Zee) is a fictional character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and one of the main antagonists of Northern Lights.

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Master (college)

A Master (more generically called a Head of House or Head of College) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen.

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New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film production studio a part of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Nomad

A nomad (νομάς, nomas, plural tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another in search of grasslands for their animals.

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Original sin

Original sin, also called "ancestral sin", is a Christian belief of the state of sin in which humanity exists since the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).

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Parallel universes in fiction

A parallel universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.

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Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist.

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Races and creatures in His Dark Materials

This is a list of fictional races and creatures in the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.

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Rowan Williams

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.

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Sam Elliott

Samuel Pack Elliott (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor.

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Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education and media company known for publishing, selling, and distributing books and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, and children.

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Seán Barrett (actor)

Seán Barrett (born 4 May 1940) is an English actor and voice actor.

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Sega

Sega Games Co., Ltd., originally short for Service Games and officially styled as SEGA, is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with offices around the world.

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Sentience

Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

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Shapeshifting

In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability of a being or creature to completely transform its physical form or shape.

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Shiny Entertainment

Shiny Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Laguna Beach, Southern California, and the creator of titles including Earthworm Jim, MDK and Enter the Matrix.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

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Stephen Thorne

Stephen Thorne (born 2 March 1935) is a British actor of radio, film, stage and television.

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Svalbard

Svalbard (prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen, still the name of its largest island) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

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Talking animals in fiction

Talking animals are a common theme in mythology and folk tales, as well as children's literature.

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The Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Golden Compass (film)

The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film based on Northern Lights, the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.

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The Golden Compass (video game)

The Golden Compass is a 2007 action-adventure puzzle video game developed by Shiny Entertainment for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows, and by A2M for Nintendo DS.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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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.

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Theism

Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of the Supreme Being or deities.

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Theocracy

Theocracy is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives.

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Usurper

A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy.

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Wheaton College (Illinois)

Wheaton College is a Christian, residential liberal arts college and graduate school in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago.

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Whispers in the Graveyard

Whispers in the Graveyard is a children's novel by Theresa Breslin, published by Methuen in 1994.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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World view

A world view or worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge and point of view.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Lights_(novel)

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