TV · HBO / BBC
His Dark Materials: where to start reading
Adapts His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
FantasyYA
3 seasons
on screen
3 books
to read
Tracks closely
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Northern Lights.
through the end of the first book.
The first season adapts the first novel across its full run.
Start reading at Northern Lights (published as The Golden Compass in North America)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman · Book 1 of 3
or borrow it: your library
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What the show changed here
- ChangedRoger's friend Billy Costa replaces the book's Tony Makarios as the severed child found in the North, tying that thread to the Gyptians.
- InventedThe season opens with baby Lyra brought to Jordan College, a scene taken from a Pullman prequel rather than Northern Lights itself.
- ChangedThe Magisterium looms as an active threat from the start; in the book it stays more in the background early on.
- ChangedDaemons are often shown far from their humans (for CGI reasons), where the book keeps them within a few feet.
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The HBO/BBC series adapts Philip Pullman's trilogy one book per season, in publication order.
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