Black Holes and Baby Universes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Hawking
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Essays; autobiography and science
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: England, Europe, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Stephen Hawking, Jane (Wilde) Hawking, Albert Einstein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Science and technology
- Subjects: Autobiography, Science or scientists, Space flight or travel, Human race, Diseases, Space and time, Physics or physicists, Quantum theory, Viruses
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
One of the great surprises of recent publishing history was the extraordinary success of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, which, since its publication in 1988, has sold more than five and a half million copies, been translated into thirty-three languages, and entered the Guiness Book of Records for appearing more weeks on the London Times’ best-seller list than any previous book. In many ways Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays is a sequel to A Brief History of Time, since it seeks to satisfy...
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