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The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.

This edition includes colour illustrations alongside a foreword by Eddie Redmayne, introduction by Nobel Prize-winner Kip Thorne and afterword by Lucy Hawking, Stephen's daughter.

Is there a God?
How did it all begin?
Can we predict the future?
What is inside a black hole?
Is there other intelligent life in the universe?
Will artificial intelligence outsmart us?
Will we survive on Earth?
Is time travel possible?

Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of space, Hawking always believed that science could also be used to fix the problems on our planet.

Now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth - from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence - Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind.

Wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, Hawking's final book is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next.

About the Author

Stephen Hawking's ability to make science understandable and compelling to a lay audience was established with the publication of his first book, A Brief History of Time, which has sold nearly 10 million copies in 40 languages. Hawking has authored or participated in the creation of numerous other popular science books, including The Universe in a Nutshell, A Briefer History of Time, On the Shoulders of Giants, The Illustrated On the Shoulders of Giants, and George's Secret Key to the Universe.

(Stephen William Hawking; Oxford, United Kingdom, January 8, 1942 – Cambridge, March 14, 2018) British theoretical physicist. Despite his physical disabilities and the progressive limitations imposed by the degenerative disease he suffered from, Stephen William Hawking is probably the best-known physicist among the general public since Einstein. A fighter and a winner, throughout his life he managed to overcome the immense obstacles posed by Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which afflicted him since he was 20 years old. Hawking is, without a doubt, a prime example of vitality and resilience in the face of adversity.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academy of Sciences. He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1979 until his retirement in 2009. Among his numerous distinctions, Hawking was awarded twelve honorary doctorates and was given the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982, the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord in 1989, the Copley Medal in 2006, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2015.

He achieved best-selling success with his popular science works, in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include A Brief History of Time, which was on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for 237 weeks.

Alvi Books Publishing House dedicated this space on Amazon to him in 2016 as a tribute and recognition.