Lucy Hawking

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Children's author of adventure stories about astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology

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Gender: Female

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Languages: English

Travels from: United Kingdom

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Lucy Hawking is the original creator of the George Greenby books, a series of adventure stories that aim to explain complex science to a young audience through dramatic storytelling. Lucy works with a group of prominent scientists, including her father, Stephen Hawking, to bring the George Greenby series to life.

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Meet Lucy Hawking

Author Lucy Hawking makes science accessible and entertaining through her ‘George’ book series of six adventure novels based on real science for young readers. Written in collaboration with world-leading scientists, the George series is published in over 40 languages, soon to include Zulu and Xhosa.

In 2015, Lucy created the Principia Space Diary with Curved House Kids for the UK Space agency, a book for primary students about astronaut Tim Peake’s mission to the ISS. Principia Space Diary was shortlisted in 2017 for the Arthur C Clarke award for education and outreach. In 2008, Lucy won the Sappio Prize for Popularizing Science and in 2015, the UNSW medal for Outstanding Science Communication. In July 2015, Lucy was awarded an honorary doctorate in science by Queen Mary University London for her work in STEM education. In 2017, Lucy was a judge on the Royal Society’s Young Science Book of the year and is a regular judge for the Breakthrough Junior Challenge in Palo Alto, USA. With the Guardian Media Group, Lucy made a virtual reality film in 2017, The Party, about an autistic teenage girl. The Party was shortlisted in the Social Impact category at this year’s Virtual Reality Awards. Lucy is a trustee of the Autism Research Trust and chairperson of the Stephen Hawking Foundation.

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Princess Olivia Investigates: The Wrong Weather

‘The more we find out about the world around us, the more we can work out other, more complicated things, such as how the universe began or how life got started on Earth . . .’ Olivia Alez is delighted about finally living a life away from the royal palace in the mountains that used to be her home, after the Kingdom of Alez decides it doesn’t want a royal family any more. Now she can finally give up boring princess lessons and learn about real things, like volcanoes and the ocean and space! But Olivia is completely unprepared for the world that awaits her. Thick, dark clouds hang low over the city, and the rivers that she so longed to see are choked with rubbish. And on top of it all, the weather just feels wrong. With scorching hot sun one day and torrential rainfall the next, it seems nearly impossible for the people and animals in Alez to adapt to their extreme climate. Olivia, horrified by what she sees, becomes determined to get to the bottom of Alez’s dangerous weather patterns. With the help of some new friends and armed with a scientific lab coat that would make Albert Einstein jealous, Olivia sets out to solve the mystery and save Alez from climate destruction before it’s too late . . .

George and the Big Bang (George's Secret Key to the Universe)

Meet George. He’s an ordinary boy with an incredible secret – the power to go on intergalactic adventures! Join him as he battles a sinister rebel-scientist, who’s hell bent on sabotaging the most exciting – and dangerous – experiment of the century. A deadly bomb is ticking. The whole world is watching. Can George stop the second big bang? Featuring the latest scientific theories – plus all-new content about the Higgs boson!

George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (George's Secret Key to the Universe)

‘We are going,’ said Annie, ‘on a great cosmic journey. So listen up, Savers of Planet Earth, and prepare to meet the Universe.’ 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 something wierd on her dad’s super-computer. Is it a message from an alien? Could there be life out there? How do you find a planet in outer space? And if you could talk to aliens, what would you say?

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