{"id":443,"date":"2007-09-10T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2007-09-10T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T12:34:46","slug":"stephen-hawking-writes-kids-sf-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking Writes Kids&#8217; SF Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a goal to create a rigorously scientific work of fiction that turns kids onto SF, Stephen Hawking has written a kids&#8217; science fiction trilogy called <I>George&#8217;s Secret Key to the Universe<\/I>.  The first volume will be published later this year, with the other two following once a year.<\/p>\n<p>His co-writers are his daughter Lucy (who suggested the idea) and the French physicist Christophe Galfard, whose thesis was based on Hawking&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>I love that the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1416954627\/downandoutint-20\">cover<\/A> advertises, &#8220;Includes new ideas about black holes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a goal to create a rigorously scientific work of fiction that turns kids onto SF, Stephen Hawking has written a kids&#8217; science fiction trilogy called George&#8217;s Secret Key to the Universe. The first volume will be published later this year, with the other two following once a year. His co-writers are his daughter Lucy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}