The Golden Compass is the first planned adaptation of Pullman's bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy.

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Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, said he feared the loss of "special community centres, dedicated to knowledge".

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And echoes of Lyra, heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, can be heard around the colleges, the streets of Jericho and the Botanic Garden.

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"He used local materials and used the dark background in order to quickly realise the figures, " she told a news conference.

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And then in the dark early hours one morning in March, he set aside the materials he'd been working with.

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Both materials are available in 16 different color cartridges including new glow in the dark green and blue and metallic silver colors.

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