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It introduces the idea that fragments like postcards, programs, maps, and catalogues can belong to stories not yet unfolded, and imagines how such pieces might drift between worlds. Dr. Mary Malone’s pursuit of dark matter becomes a way to connect unseen forces with the reading of hidden traces that form a larger narrative.","LYRA’S OXFORD  \nHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman:  \nNORTHERN LIGHTS THE SUBTLE KNIFE  \nTHE AMBER SPYGLASS  \nLYRA’S OXFORD  \nA DAVID FICKLING BOOK  \n0385 606990  \nPublished in Great Britain by David Fickling Books,  \na division of Random House Children’s Books  \nThis edition published 2003  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nCopyright © Philip Pullman 2003  \nIllustrations copyright © John Lawrence 2003  \nDesign copyright © Trickett & Webb Limited 2003  \nThe right of Philip Pullman to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.  \nPapers used by Random House Children’s Books are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.  \nSet in llpt New Baskerville  \nDAVID FICKLING BOOKS  \n31 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2NP  \nA division of RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN’S BOOKS  \n61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA  \nRANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA (PTY) LTD  \n20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydney,  \nNew South Wales 2061, Australia  \nRANDOM HOUSE NEW ZEALAND LTD  \n18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland 10, New Zealand  \nRANDOM HOUSE (PTY) LTD  \nEndulini, 5A Jubilee Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa  \nTHE RANDOM HOUSE GROUP Limited Reg. No. 954009  \n[www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk](www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk)  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nPrinted and bound in Germany by GGP Media  \n“…Oxford, where the real and the unreal jostle in the streets; where North Parade is in the south and South Parade is in the north, where Paradise is lost under a pumping station;1 where the river mists have a solvent and vivifying effect on the stone of the ancient buildings, so that the gargoyles of Magdalen College climb down at night and fight with those from Wykeham, or fish under the bridges, or simply change their expressions overnight; Oxford, where windows open into other worlds  ”  \nOscar Baedecker, The Coasts ofBohemia  \n1 The old houses of Paradise Square were demolished in order to make an office block, in fact, not a pumping station. But Baedecker, for all his wayward charm, is a notoriously unreliable guide.  \nTHIS BOOK contains a story and several other things. The other things might be  \nconnected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven ’t appeared yet. It ’s not easy to tell.  \nIt ’s easy to imagine how they might have turned up, though. The world is full of things like that: old postcards, theater programs, leaflets about bomb-proofing your cellar, greeting cards, photograph albums, holiday brochures, instruction booklets for machine tools, maps, catalogs, railway timetables, menu cards from long-gone cruise liners—all kinds of things that once served a real and useful purpose, but have now become cut adrift from the things and the people they relate to.  \nThey might have come from anywhere. They might have come from other worlds. That scribbled-on map, that publisher ’s catalog—they might have been put down absentmindedly in another universe, and been blown by a chance wind through an open window, to find themselves after many adventures on a market stall in our world.  \nAll these tattered old bits and pieces have a history and a meaning. A group of them together can seem like the traces left by an ionizing particle in a bubble chamber: they draw the line of a path taken by something too mysterious to see. That path is a story, of course. 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