There are several textual differences and a different ISBN was assigned.
The second printing has white endpapers, the contents page and dedication present, corrections made to the figures, and a dark blue dust jacket. It has gray-blue endpapers, lacks the contents page and the dedication statement on the copyright page, shows a number of figures incorrectly ordered or labelled, and has a silvery light-blue dust jacket, similar in colour to that of the UK first edition jacket. The error-riddled first printing of the former was recalled and destroyed, though a small number survived. The first US edition was published simultaneously with the UK edition in April 1988. This book takes the readers on a journey into the depth of cosmos right from the big bang theory, through the nature of forces and the world of string theory in physics, to the different forces that constitute the universe itself, summed up as the theory of everything.Īlthough a seemingly huge subject, Hawking tickles the mind of the inquisitive readers through his simple yet eloquent language of physics and mathematics and has even the non-scientific reader get attracted to the enormous universe and working of the cosmos.īy drawing analogies of Copernicus, Sagan, Kepler and Einstein, among others, who unfurled the science of universe to the common people, Stephen Hawking has yet managed to bring important topics wormholes and black holes into the discussion of common people.First US edition, the suppressed first printing, of one of the most important scientific works of the 20th century. In doing so, he also sheds considerable light on the dark secrets that still reside at the heart of time and space. Stephen Hawking, the great scientist and theoretical physicist, tries to answer it all by drawing theories of the entire cosmos from Albert Einstein to Newton. A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes’ poses some interesting and unanswered questions, like if there had been any beginning of time or if time can run backwards or if there is any boundary to the universe itself.
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