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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2018 by Lucy Hawking

Jacket illustrations by Garry Parsons

copyright © 2018 by Random House Children’s Publishers

Interior illustrations/diagrams copyright © 2018 by Random House Children’s Publishers

Originally published in Great Britain in 2018 by Random House Children’s Publishers UK, a division of the Random House Group Ltd.

First US edition 2019

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Jacket illustrations by Garry Parsons copyright © 2018 by Random House Children’s Publishers

The illustrations for this book were rendered in pencil that was digitally edited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hawking, Lucy, author. | Parsons, Garry, illustrator.

Title: George and the ship of time / Lucy Hawking ; illustrated by Garry Parsons.

Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019. | Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House Children’s in 2018. | Summary: After escaping the runaway spaceship, George finds himself on a barren Earth where society is under corporate control, access to technology is restricted, and the uneducated population is swamped with fake news.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018020088 | ISBN 9781534437302 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534437326 (eBook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Robots—Fiction. | Technology—Fiction. | Science fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.H3134 Gcf 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020088