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Stephen Hawking's posthumous book answering big questions, from God and black holes to artificial intelligence and humanity's future.
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The book gathers, in a direct format, Hawking's positions on questions he often received from readers and the public. Each chapter starts from a question and answers it through the eyes of a theoretical physicist, which makes it easy to choose where to begin.
Curious readers without a physics background who want an overview of big cosmology questions. It also suits high school students and anyone who has read A Brief History of Time and wants something shorter and focused on current themes.
Published in 2018, after Hawking's death, the book was assembled from texts and answers he left behind and poses ten questions. Some predictions and speculations reflect the debate of that moment and may have been overtaken by later discoveries.
Check that the edition is complete, with no abridged chapters. A plain format is enough for a straight read. Readers who want more depth can move on to the classic A Brief History of Time, which treats the physics in a more structured way.