The Golden Compass
Posted On : Aug / 02 / 2008
The
story concerns Lyra, an orphan living in a parallel universe in
which a dogmatic theocracy called the Magisterium threatens to
dominate the world. When Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to
the far North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle. In
this parallel universe in which a person's soul resides outside the
body in the form of an animal called a
"dæmon".