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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 weird on her dad's supercomputer. Is it a message from an alien? Could... read more

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  • George: George is the main character in this book. He spends most of his time with Annie and Cosmos, the supercomputer.
  • Annie: Annie is George's best friend, her father, Eric, is a very intillegent space scientist.
  • Eric: Eric is Annie's father. He is a space scientist who invented Cosmos with Dr. Reeper and their teacher.
  • Emmett: Emmett is a boy who never had any friends and comes to stay in Annie's house during his holidays. He is a whizz with computers and it seems he has a super-computer's brain.
  • Dr Reeper: Dr. Reeper is the brainy villain with a pretty upsetting life, who is banned from science because of Eric, Annie's father although they were once friends.
  • Mabel: Mabel is George's grandmother who likes to pretend to be deaf towards adults comes to look after George while his mother and father are on a mission to save the sinking Pacific islands.
  • Susan: Susan is Annie's mother who is a patient and loving person.
  • Gran: Annie's grandmother.
  • Terence: George's father and a very brave and adventurous eco-warrior who almost got lost when he was traveling on a boat in the Pacific.
  • Daisy: George's mother works as an eco-warrior along with her husband, Terence who is also George's father.
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “It's okay, Pooky. We'll get rid of them soon.”
    G. Reeper

First Sentence edit see section history

'T minus seven minutes and thirty seconds,' said a robotic voice.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue
18 chapters
Epilogue

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 3 in George. (standard series)

Preceded by George's Secret Key to the Universe, and followed by George and the Big Bang.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lucy Hawking (Author)
  2. Stephen W. Hawking (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Corgi Books - Random House Children's Books
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-552-559614
Page Count: 299

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