The phenomenal international bestseller from one of the world's greatest scientists

Winner of Aventis General Prize for Science Books 1989.

"'Master of the Universe...One scientist's courageous voyage to the frontiers of the Cosmos'" Newsweek "'This book marries a child's wonder to a genius's intellect. We journey into Hawking's universe, while marvelling at his mind'" The Sunday Times "'He can explain the complexities of cosmological physics with an engaging combination of clarity and wit...His is a brain of extraordinary power'" Observer "'To follow such a fine mind as it exposes such great problems is an exciting experience'" The Sunday Times "'One of the most brilliant scientific minds since Einstein'" Daily Express

In 1963, Stephen Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. For thirty years he held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science.