The essential authors of science fiction, fantasy & horror — and where to start reading them.
Series Guide
Lyra, Will, the alethiometer, the subtle knife and the war on the Authority: Pullman's Miltonic trilogy that retold the Fall as liberation and raised children's fantasy's ceiling for good.
Carnegie Medal winner, later voted the 'Carnegie of Carnegies' — the public's favourite winner in the medal's history — and the launch of the trilogy that made children's fantasy a battleground of ideas; filmed in 2007 and serialised by the BBC/HBO.
Whitbread Book of the Year 2001 — the first children's book ever to take the overall prize — and the most theologically audacious bestseller in the YA canon; the trilogy's capstone and lightning rod alike.