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America is still winning the war -- on science.

Hawking would be the best science columnist SG could ever have. I'd never seen MC Hawking before. Good stuff!

That is sweet! Anything to help get kids more interested in science is a big plus.

[i teared up about that too]

this sounds rad. <3 hawking

I'm so buying that.

Wow.. I'm so running out and buying that when it's released in English.

I teared up about the zero-gravity flight, too. The picture was priceless. He was so happy!

Even though I crush harder on Richard Feynman, I do love Hawking, and will be first in line to get this book.

wow i shall have to get this book

I support the idea fully, but "young George and his friends travel through the cosmos aboard an asteroid, checking out black holes and other totally neat stuff" just sounds really dull to me. I really hope there's some kind of actual story and not just a travelogue of the universe.

Steven Hawking kitted out in a mech. battling the pope as they balance on the event horizon of a black hole.

... *reads article*

I was damn close people.

it really was priceless. after all he's done for the entire human race, he at the very, very least deserved to be set free for a little while.

Completely awesome!
Maybe kid geniuses will be inspired or invoked by his books.

I did hear Hawking is massively into robots and has cautioned against the Terminator/Matrix robot AI takeover scenario....so if he is also not into the 'fiction' part of science, we better take heed. (eyes iPhone suspiciously)

SHHHHH!!! you'll give away the ending to the trilogy!

first: MC Hawking will fuck you up.
secondly: I have a tremendous amount of respect for Steven Hawking, I will admit that I got a little choked up at the story of his suborbital flight. I think that this childrens book is a great idea, and a part of me would like to see it really take off.
mad props to the original gangsta, MC Hawking.

The Hawk man writing kid's sf books? cool! I'll haveta buy one for my kid!

Stephen Hawking in Harry Potter



God I love Alfonso Cuaron.

I will definitely have to check this out.

seriously.

i have tremendous respect for Stephen Hawking, just last night I was watching the documentary in which he explains that his entire theories on the information paradox have been completely wrong for the last thirty years and how information is not lost in a black hole-less universe. my only fears are this: that Stephen Hawking has as much to do with this book as Quentin Tarrentino had to do with Hostel. That someone else actually wrote it and that they are just throwing his name on it to get people interested. George's Secret Key to the Universe by Richard J. Keppleman, not being bought by anyone....

George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking, bought by everyone...

I tear up now, just thinking about it.

I'm so buying this book. He's very close to my heart. It would be so snazzy to meet him one day. Which will probably never happen, but would still be super cool.

awe-some!!!!

That would be fucking sweet!!

I think this is really cool. I have to imagine it'll be better than most of the drivel that kids are exposed to on a regular basis.

That looks like one happy Hawking. These books will be on my gift list for nieces, nephews and children of friends for a long time to come. Hell yeah!

The Hawkman cometh...