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Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman. check out website: www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk
For those not yet entranced by 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, this story - very short at 46 pages, offers a tantalising glimpse into that world. For ‘Lyra's Oxford’ is not part of our world.
She is resident in an alternative Earth where people have daemons and there is real magic and witches. Lyra's daemon is her soul visualises in animal form. The animal is really part of the human with an energy link that is only severed by death. No one other than its own human should touch the daemon. It is an ultimate taboo. If you are privy to Lyra's adventures with Will in the previous three books you will no doubt be hungry for more. I'm hoping that this short tale is a prelude to another set of adventures. The book is presented by the author as an artefact or perhaps evidence. Use it to build what you will and let us wait and see if dreams come true. Sue Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - May 2004
Non Fiction Mythology: The DC Comics Art Of Alex Ross Futures: 50 Years In Space The Challenge Of The Stars by David A. Hardy and Patrick Moore Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon: Second Edition by Brian Roseberry DVDs Babylon 5: The Complete First Season: Signs and Portents Fantasy Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson The Siege Of Mithila by Ashok K. Banker Broken Crescent by S. Andrew Swann The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan The Destroyer Goddess by Laura Resnick The Weavers Of Saramyr by Chris Wooding The Iron Grail by Robert Holdstock Faerie Tales edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davies Darknesses by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Slipstream Changing Of Faces by Tim Lebbon Karloff’s Circus by Steve Aylett The Well Of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Science Fiction The Golden Globe by John Varley Market Forces by Richard Morgan It Came From Outer Space screenplay by Ray Bradbury A Gift Of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey Different Kinds Of Darkness by David Langford Felaheen The Third Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Absolution Gap by Adrian Reynolds The Line Of Polity by Neal Asher The Affinity Trap by Martin Sketchley Natural History by Justina Robson Horror Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris Magazines
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This
short story enclosed with a map of ‘Lyra's Oxford’ and some apparently
sundry addendums, most likely forms an introduction to another set
of stories about Lyra. 
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