Originally published in Great Britain by Scholastic Children's Books in 1995 under the title His dark materials 1: Northern lights. Reprinted by arrangement with Alfred Knopf.
Serie/fortsättningsarbete: 1. Northern lights -- 2. The subtle knife -- 3. The amber spyglass
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North