About this edition
A Briefer History of Time was written by Stephen Hawkingand Leonard Mlodinow, and published by Bantam Books in 2005. It is a shorter, more approachable reworking of Hawking's A Brief History of Time(1988). All of the words you read here are theirs.
This is a web edition, made because a book about the shape of the universe ought to be easy to read on the thing most people actually read on. It works offline, so it keeps working on a plane, on a train, or anywhere else the signal gives out. The text is not edited, abridged or paraphrased — a check runs on every build that compares each chapter word by word and refuses to publish if anything has changed.
The illustrations are a mix of the book's own figures and a set of interactive versions built for this edition, for the ideas that a still picture struggles with. Those are additions to the book, never replacements for its argument.
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If you value this, buy it. Hawking and Mlodinow wrote it, and their publisher took the risk of printing it.
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