ABriefHistoryofTime

ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: A Reader’s Companion Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time AVAILABLE SOON IN HARDCOVER The Universe in a Nutshell A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME A Bantam Book Publishing History Bantam illustrated hardcover edition published November 1996 Bantam hardcover edition/September 1998 Bantam trade paperback edition/September 1998 All rights reserved. Copyright © 1988, 1996 by Stephen Hawking Illustrations copyright © 1988 by Ron Miller No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information address: Bantam Books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.) A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking.—Updated and expanded tenth anniversary ed. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-553-89692-3 1. Cosmology. I. Title. QB981.H377 1998 523.1—dc21 98-21874 Bantam Books are published ......