George and the Unbreakable Code by Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking

Author:Lucy Hawking & Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Lucy & Hawking, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure, General, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780857533258
Google: c_3JAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00IA4CA06
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

‘Ah,’ said Annie, remembering what her father had done. ‘And is it possible to override that command?’

‘If you know the access code to perform the newly installed override function,’ replied Cosmos, ‘then please go ahead.’

Annie glared at the computer and then glanced at George, who was looking frustrated. ‘I could try hitting all the keys, like Ebot did . . .’ she whispered. George nodded and she struck a random selection of keys just as Ebot had done when George had been directing him from space. But nothing happened.

‘Think of something in space that we need to do for your chemistry project!’ hissed George. ‘And then Cosmos will have to open the portal because it’s part of your project so you won’t need the override code.’

‘OK! Good thinking! Right, well, Cosmos,’ Annie said, playing for time. ‘We . . . need . . . to . . . find . . . protein in space! It’s the next subject for my chemistry project!’

‘Protein in space,’ repeated George. ‘Absolutely. That’s exactly what we have to do. We’ve got carbon and water – now we need you to find us a location where we can identify space proteins, Cosmos.’

Obligingly, Cosmos opened up the doorway to space, drawing a rectangle with beams of light, which then filled out to become a solid, door-shaped object hovering just above the floor in George’s kitchen. When the door swung back, the view was not of anywhere inside George’s house – or even any location on planet Earth.

Over the threshold, once again, lay space itself – enormous, unexplored, mysterious and mostly empty, apart from events of extreme violence or patches of terrifying beauty. In some parts, you might land safely on a distant exoplanet in orbit around a star other than our sun. In others, you might drift through the great clouds of a nebula. Or you might find yourself battling against the explosive, angry forces of a quasar, one of the most luminous, energetic and powerful objects in the Universe. The Universe itself was dangerous enough, and their previous space journeys had been fraught with peril – but at least on those adventures they had been able to rely on Cosmos to help them out of danger. Now it looked like the supercomputer was all too keen for them to walk straight into it. It was a terrifying prospect.

‘Wow!’ Annie breathed as she and George looked out through the doorway onto the seemingly endless landscape of space. But as Cosmos zoomed closer into his chosen spot, the view grew darker and murkier – until it looked as though the portal led into a sand storm, with rocks and dust whistling by at great speed.

‘Where is this?’ George asked Cosmos in amazement and horror as he watched the chunks of debris flying past, so close that he could almost have reached out and caught one – though they were moving at such a speed they would have snapped off his hand if he’d tried it.

‘This is a disc of dust around a young proto-star, around 375 light years from Earth,’ said Cosmos calmly.

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