Stephen Hawking writes a kids' sf trilogy

[Mr. Analog]

Stephen Hawking has written a kids' science fiction trilogy called George's Secret Key to the Universe, the first volume of which is to be published in 29 countries this year, with subsequent volumes coming once a year. His goal is to create a rigorously scientific work of sf that turns kids onto sf -- that's my kind of book! Hawking's co-writers are his daughter (who came up with the idea) and the French physicist Christophe Galfard, whose thesis was based on Hawking's work.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/04/stephen-hawkings-wri.html

Personally I was looking forward to Schrodinger's' Cat in the Hat but this'll do nicely.

[Darren Dirt]

Personally I was looking forward to Schrodinger's' Cat in the Hat but this'll do nicely.

rofl thanks for reminding me, I ordered that book (the full trilogy -- 500+ pages) and haven't started reading it yet. Are you familiar with it? If not, let me know if you ever want to borrow it to see if RAW's style is to your liking...

[Mr. Analog]

I may...