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George's Secret Key to the Universe

Stephen Hawking & Lucy Hawking & Christophe Galfard

First published 2007
Publisher Doubleday (UK)
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
ISBN 9780385611817
Cover art Garry Parsons
Pages 297+[32]

Notes

The series has a website - [here].

  • Although the cover states the authors as "Lucy & Stephen Hawking", the title page states "Lucy & Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard".
  • The copyright page has "© Lucy Hawking, 2007" and "The right of Lucy Hawking to be identified as the author ...". Information in the back pages of the book states that Christophe Galfard "collaborated in the scientific storyline, details and images ..."
  • First printing of this edition, as per 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 number line.
  • As well as pen-and-ink style illustrations, there are a number of colour plates with photographs of astronomical objects in sets of four sheets throughout the text. The colour plates aren't included in the page numbering; they are indicated as [32] in the "pages" field above.

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Awards

Year Award Category Status
2008 Golden Duck Award Middle Grades Award Nominee/Finalist

Other Editions

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
George's Secret Key to the Universe Cover 2007 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Hardcover Novel Garry Parsons 297+[32]
George's Secret Key to the Universe Cover 2008 Corgi Trade Paperback Novel Garry Parsons 297+[32]