Stephen Hawking Pens Young-Adult Science-Fiction Novel

Could this be the next Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, written by Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll or another Lord of the Rings, by Oxford linguist JR Tolkien?

Stephen Hawking, author of the million-selling "A Brief History of Time," is writing a young-adult novel, "George's Secret Key to the Universe," the story of a young man's computer-driven adventures, to be published this fall by Simon & Schuster."

Like 'A Brief History of Time' inspired millions of adult minds around the globe, 'George's Secret Key to the Universe' will make complex physics readily accessible to a younger audience (and we suspect, to an older one as well).

The book, co-written with Hawking's daughter, author Lucy Hawking, is the story of a boy named George who befriends a scientist and the scientist's daughter. George soon "finds himself on a wildly fun adventure, while learning about physics, time and the universe."

Sounds right up our alley, and from the author of my two favorite quotations:

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

Posted by Casey Kazan

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[Sander]

I hope this book is more readable than his other books. I've bought them but they are very difficult to understand.