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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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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