A verveful mix of live action and puppetry, the dramatisation promises to be as magical as Phillip Pullman’s magnificent novels.

Motorized on the vehicle of will, she rode spaceward, timeward, back again, back again into the world she had left behind, hurtling past planets shifting in their orbits like women turning over in their beds […]

the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries

Lectotype designation is justified under article 74.1.1 of the ICZN (1999) in order to fix the status of this specimen as the sole name-bearing type of this species.