The Knowledge: Fantastic Future Award-winning illustrator by Dr Mike Goldsmith (author) and Daniel Postgate (illustrator)

In 30 years’ time will you be holidaying on the moon? In 100 years’ time could you genetically engineer your own pet? In 1000 years’ time will you travel through space in an anti-matter-drive spaceship?

This eye-opening guide predicts the future with a time-travelling trip through, well, time… Inside, visit vast skyscraper cities, make friends with robots and cyborgs, colonize far distant galaxies, and watch the very last star go out at the end of the universe.

Read the Tomorrow’s Times news reports from the future, discover how to terraform a desert planet and how to create a virtual you.

Product Details

Series

The Knowledge

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780439973366

Date published

September 17th, 2004

Lexile measure

NC1170L

Other details

144 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

The Knowledge

Author/Illustrator

Dr Mike Goldsmith

Dr Mike Goldsmith is a qualified astro-physicist, working at the National Physical Laboratory. His book on Einstein in the Dead Famous series was shortlisted for the 2002 Aventis junior prize for science writing and he has written Scientists and Inventors in the same series.

Daniel Postgate

Daniel Postgate, author of The Snagglegrollop, is a freelance author, illustrator and cartoonist with over 20 years’ experience. His other titles include Smelly Bill, Kevin Saves the World and Big Mum Plum. Daniel’s books are very popular and have been recognised for lots of awards. To date he has won both the Nottingham Children’s Book Award and Norfolk County Children’s Book Award, and he has been shortlisted for both the Sheffield and Stockport Children’s Book Awards.