Hawkings to write a children’s book

By Carmen 

It wasn’t even twenty years ago that A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME exploded upon the publishing scene, but Stephen Hawking is a bona fide phenomenon – and now, together with his daughter Lucy, he wants to spread the message of science to kids. The BBC reports that the two will write a book together that they deem “a bit like Harry Potter”, but without the magic, aiming to explain theoretical physics in an accessible way to youngsters. No publication date or further details are known at this time, but if he can make a difficult topic accessible to kids – hell, to adults – that’s a pretty mean feat…