Editing His Dark Materials (section)

==Setting==
{{Main|Locations in His Dark Materials}}
The trilogy takes place across a [[multiverse]], moving between many parallel worlds. In ''Northern Lights'', the story takes place in a world with some similarities to our own: dress-style resembles that of the UK's [[Edwardian era]]; the technology does not include cars or fixed-wing aircraft, but [[zeppelin]]s feature as a mode of transport.

The dominant religion has parallels with [[Christianity]].<ref name=cs61>Squires (2003: 61): "Religion in Lyra's world...has similarities to the Christianity of 'our own universe', but also crucial differences...[it] is based not in the Catholic centre of Rome, but in Geneva, Switzerland, where the centre of religious power, narrates Pullman, moved in the Middle Ages under the aegis of John Calvin".</ref> The Church (governed by the "Magisterium", the same name as the [[Magisterium|authority of the Catholic Church]]) exerts a strong control over society and has some of the appearance and organisation of the [[Catholic Church]], but one in which the centre of power had been moved from Rome to Geneva, moved there by Pullman's fictional "Pope John Calvin" ([[Geneva]] was the home of the historical [[John Calvin]]).<ref>''Northern Lights'' p. 31: "Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the papacy to Geneva ... the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute"</ref>

In ''The Subtle Knife'', the story moves between our own world, the world of the first novel, and a third world containing the city of [[Cittàgazze]]. In ''The Amber Spyglass'', several other worlds appear alongside those three.