The Science of Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS. Mary & John Gribbin (P/B)

 THE SCIENCE OF PHILIP PULLMAN'S HIS DARK MATERIALS by Mary & John Gribbin.

Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIAL'S trilogy is an extraordinary work of the imagination. But behind the enthralling fictional words of Lyra and Will lies a world of astonishing scientific truth.

The Northern Lights, Will's subtle knife, Mary Malone'samber spyglass, the parallel universes through which Will and Lyra travel, the mulefa and the seed pods even the mystery of Dust - all are firmly rooted in science.

Award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveall how the trilogy is steeped in string theory and spacetime, quantum physics and chaos, symbiosis, entanglement and cold dark matter. Ideas which are as strange and beautiful as Philip Pullman's stories, and all the stranger for being true.

 

A paperback published by Hodder Headline