Anybody out there? ASU launches 'Dear Aliens' writing contest

February 24, 2011

What would you say to an extraterrestrial intelligent life form if you were contacted from outer space? Would you tell it about mountains, deserts, rain forests and oceans? Would you attempt to explain humankind’s efforts to create a greener planet? Or would you focus on who we are as the human race and what we have done? Keep reading...

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Characters Annie, her scientist father Eric, and George are illustrated by UK artist Garry Parsons in “George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt,” the second in a young adult trilogy co-authored by Lucy Hawking, the Origins writer-in-residence at Arizona State University, and her father, Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist at Cambridge.

(Image courtesy of Garry Parsons and Random House)