
The book was given positive reviews by such publications as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

It concerns a range of subjects in cosmology including the Big Bang and black holes, as well as the works of Galileo and Newton and modern astrophysics. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalising secrets at the heart of time and space." - Excerpt of the back cover blurb Ī Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book written by Muggle physicist Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. Now, in this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe.

" Stephen Hawking has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein.
