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  2. George's Secret Key to the Universe - Wikipedia

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    George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard.Upon its release, the book received mixed reviews, and was followed by five sequels, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt in 2009, George and the Big Bang in 2011, George and the Unbreakable Code in 2014 and George and the Blue Moon in 2016 and George and the Ship of Time [] in 2018.

  3. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

  4. The House on Maple Street - Wikipedia

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    The story was inspired by one of the drawings included in the children's book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg. [1] It was later included in the 2011 book The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales, along with stories by other high-profile writers, including Tabitha King, inspired by the other illustrations.

  5. Mars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The question of how humans would get to Mars was addressed in several ways: when not travelling there via spaceship as in the 1911 novel To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks, [24] they might use a flying carpet as in the 1905 novel Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold, [14] [18] [20] a balloon as in A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul ...

  6. Star Maker - Wikipedia

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    Star Maker is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937.Continuing the theme of the author's previous book, Last and First Men (1930)—which narrated a history of the human species over two billion years—it describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing the scale of the earlier work.

  7. Canopus in Argos - Wikipedia

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    Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels by Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing, which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time.

  8. The Light of Other Days - Wikipedia

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    The Light of Other Days is a 2000 science fiction novel written by Stephen Baxter based on a synopsis by Arthur C. Clarke, [1] which explores the development of wormhole technology to the point where information can be passed instantaneously between points in the spacetime continuum.

  9. The Mote in God's Eye - Wikipedia

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    The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974.The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species.