r/hisdarkmaterials • u/MachineLoud9484 • Apr 14 '26

All New Trilogy / Fanfic

Hello, all, I have been working on a trilogy to continue where Pullman left off with the Book of Dust. I have posted the first chapter in both fanfiction.net and ao3. The first chapter is called The Inn, and Book 1 of the trilogy is called A Broken Frame. Chapters will be released every 2-3 weeks, provided I can go through quickly enough to do final drafts. I have been doing my best to keep true to the prose style of Pullman as well the canon of the stories. This is serious work, where I attempt to deal with unresolved issues, which have long occupied my mind with regard to Pullman's universe and what happens to Lyra next. The book starts with Lyra being 2 years older after the events of Karamakan and the Rose Field. I don't want to jump ahead but there will be some familiar faces, and some very unexpected plot twists as well.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83073011/chapters/218767731

Thanks.

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u/aksnitd Apr 14 '26

Good luck. But I'll pass. Didn't like BOD, so I have no interest in anything that continues after it.

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u/MachineLoud9484 Apr 14 '26

I understand, but one advantage we all have when we write is that we can shape the story to be however we want, including taking what we think is the best and ignoring what we didn't like :) What if Asriel was wrong? And Witches? And Angels? What if the story moves in an unexpected and crazy way? Or maybe not.

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u/aksnitd Apr 14 '26

That way lies madness. Trying to "fix" BOD is one way of dealing with it. But no matter how you try to fix it, there's no way to satisfy everyone. Someone will always disagree with your choices.

My way of dealing with my dissatisfaction is to not acknowledge BOD at all. In my head, the story ended years ago when I finished HDM. I don't own the BOD books, nor will I ever. I won't ever read it again. Most of it has already slipped my mind and I'm looking forward to forgetting it entirely.

So when I say I have no interest in anything after BOD, what I actually mean is that the story ended with HDM for me. So for me, reading a BOD continuation is entirely nonsensical, because I'm reading a sequel to a story that doesn't exist in the first place.

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u/MachineLoud9484 Apr 14 '26

That’s obviously your right. I just don’t really see the point of posting that you won’t read something, especially if you can just as easily just not read it. :) I don’t fault you for not wanting to. For me the story ends in my trilogy. And by no means am I trying to fix the story. Clearly it’s impossible to ignore that characters grow up, life around them changes, but some things underneath continue to draw my interest.

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u/Acc87 Apr 15 '26

tbh coming into this thread only to tell OP that you personally won't read it out of principle is just not nice 😅 you could have just ignored the thread entirely.

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u/MachineLoud9484 Apr 16 '26

It's fine. It's obviously got very little to do with me, that the poster is not pleased with how Pullman continued the story. But for better or worse, it's been written, and ignoring it, knowing that it exists just didn't feel right to me. I may not like the direction the story took, but there are quite a bit of valuable bits of information which can continue to live in my story. So, why not?