A Briefer History of Time

  • Stephen Hawking &
  • Leonard Mlodinow
Bantam Books: 2005. 176 pp. $25 0553804367 | ISBN: 0-553-80436-7

The phenomenal success of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time demands that the arrival of this new edition be treated as a major publishing event. So let me begin with a few facts. First, A Briefer History of Time is not a new book, but rather an updated and reworked edition of the original. Second, it is certainly briefer, at three-quarters the length of the original. Third, the simple black-and-white diagrams of the first book have been replaced by stylish colour images, ranging from the amusing (Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow strapped into their time machine) to the misleading (space-times, of expanding universes and wormholes, embedded within space-time).

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