Stephen Hawking ... books of all time. Hawking wanted to explain his work to the public, and to make some money to provide for his family as his health declined. A Brief History of Time was ...

10 facts about Stephen Hawking you didn't know that may surprise you A Brief History of Time was such an instant success that when the publishers, realising a photograph had been printed upside ...

Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...