3. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. . Dust. Berean Study Bible And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt… Perhaps he might have mentioned the book … 1. It actually took me a little while to read the Book of Dust as I found myself switching to others (something that never happened with the other books). Dust is able to communicate with humans via several methods shown throughout His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, including by use of alethiometers. At long last, Philip Pullman returns to us with volume one of The Book of Dust, a companion trilogy to his much beloved His Dark Materials. 2. Truly thrilling.” —The New York Times More than twenty years after the publication of the groundbreaking The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman returns to that parallel world to expand on the story of Lyra, “one of fantasy’s most indelible characters.” The last time P. Pullman gave an update on the book on his website was in 2012. Mary Malone is able to construct a computer program that, when paired with a detector, can communicate with Dust by typed questions. About The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) “The book is full of wonder. All. . I, … The Book of Dust is a story in three parts.The first part, La Belle Sauvage, is set 10 years before the events of His Dark Materials, and the rest of the story takes place 20 years after that: in fact, 10 years after Lyra comes home to Jordan College after her adventure in the Arctic at the end of The Amber Spyglass. We learned also in His Dark Materials that Dust is a matter of threat and anxiety for the theocratic tyrants who are tightening their grip on this world.It is a result of the Fall of Adam: Dust comes with self-awareness, and self-awareness brings the possibility of sin. Does anyone have any news on The Book of Dust? Questions about that mysterious and troubling substance were already causing strife 10 years before His Dark Materials, and at the centre of The Book of Dust is the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organisation, which wants to stifle speculation and enquiry, and those who believe thought and speech should be free. I just re-read TSC and it got me thinking... all through the book Lyra is saying that she knows something about the building in Karamakan, it propably is something she learned or doesn't realize she learned on her earlier adventures. Thinking about the end of The Book of Dust Vol. . Lyra Belacqua, later known as Lyra Silvertongue, is the central character of His Dark Materials and a key character in The Book of Dust.Together with her dæmon Pantalaimon, she is introduced as a baby in La Belle Sauvage, where she is being protected from the Magisterium.She is protected by the nuns of the Priory of Saint Rosamund, and then brought up by the scholars of Jordan College.