George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

LUCY HAWKING is the original creator of the George series. She works with world leading scientists, including her co-author and father, Stephen Hawking, to explain complex concepts of science through story telling to young readers. A former journalist, she has written widely for British newspapers. Lucy now gives regular talks about the science and stories of the George series to audiences all over the world.

STEPHEN HAWKING was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures.
He died on 14 March, 2018.

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Can George solve the cosmic clues that lead him into space and on a fabulous treasure hunt across the galaxy?

He and his friend Annie are determined to try - or planet Earth could be destroyed!

A terrific adventure story PACKED with drama and excitement.

AND there are loads of REAL FACTS about space and the cosmos.

From LUCY HAWKING

and PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING,

the most famous science genius in the Universe!

Illustrated by GARRY PARSONS

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The truth is out there, George, said Annie. And we are going to find it . . .

George s best friend Annie needs help. Her scientist father, Eric, is working on a space project and it s all going wrong.A robot has landed on Mars, but is behaving very oddly. And now Annie has discovered a weird message on her dad s supercomputer.

Is it a message from an alien?

Colliding hadrons!If Earth is to be saved, George and Annie with the help of their computer genius friend Emmett must use the supercomputer to travel into space.First stop Mars and then on to the very edge of the known galaxy as they follow one clue after another on a fabulous treasure hunt across the cosmos.

Could there be life out there?

And how do you talk to aliens?

This terrific adventure is not only an action-packed rollercoaster ride into a dramatic adventure but is also FILLED with masses of all the LATEST scientific knowledge about our universe . AND there are special essays from some of the top experts in the world . . . about life on Mars, about travelling across the universe and about the search for real-life extra-terrestrials!