![]() ![]() Now, Pullman is at work on a new trilogy set in the same universe as His Dark Materials, of which La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One (Book of Dust 1) is the first volume. In His Dark Materials, his ambitious trilogy released around the time of the millennium – a trilogy which offered a riposte to the pro-Christian messages of much children’s and young-adult fantasy of the twentieth century – Pullman took in ideas from quantum physics as well as metaphysics, to produce a masterly piece of storytelling that McEwan’s fictional scientist would doubtless have admired. ![]() ![]() Of the novelists who are engaging head-on with these discoveries and mysteries in his fiction, Philip Pullman is one of the most engaging and engaged. ![]()
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