{"id":1568,"date":"2017-02-15T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2017-03-21T20:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:25:25","slug":"release-date-announced-for-the-book-of-dust-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/release-date-announced-for-the-book-of-dust-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Release date announced for The Book of Dust trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-pullman.com\/newsitem?newsItemID=21\">Philip Pullman announces the upcoming release of The Book of Dust trilogy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The as-yet untitled first volume will be set in London and Oxford, and will run parallel to the His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra Belacqua will return in the first two volumes, as a baby and then ten years after the ending of The Amber Spyglass.<\/p>\n<p>Pullman has described the new trilogy as neither a prequel nor a sequel, but an &#8216;equel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognise and characters they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met before.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first volume will be released worldwide on 19th October 2017, Pullman&#8217;s own birthday. You can pre-order it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0385604416\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0385604416&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=brtothst-21\" rel=\"nofollow\">here on Amazon UK<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Dust-1-Philip-Pullman\/dp\/0375815309\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1487604001&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=book+of+dust\">here on Amazon US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=brtothst-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0385604416\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51MHJZo0sjL._SX325_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman announces the upcoming release of The Book of Dust trilogy The as-yet untitled first volume will be set in London and Oxford, and will run parallel to the His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra Belacqua will return in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/release-date-announced-for-the-book-of-dust-trilogy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-dust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}