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THE FINAL BOOK FROM STEPHEN HAWKING

'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'

Daily Telegraph

ls 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? How do we shape the future?  Will we survive on Earth? M Should we colonise space? Is time travel possible?

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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.

How did the universe begin? Will humanity survive on Earth? Is there intelligent life beyond our solar system? Could artificial intelligence ever outsmart us?

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 also believed that science plays a crucial role in fixing the problems here on Earth.

And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes - including climate change, the threat of nuclear war and the development 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, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS, the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are heading next.

Stephen Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist and is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. He held the position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and is the author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. His other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universes, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design and Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures. He also co-authored a series of children's books with his daughter Lucy Hawking, the first of which is George's Secret Key to the Universe. He died on 14 March 2018.

With a Foreword by Eddie Redmayne, an Introduction by Professor KipThorne and an Afterword by Lucy Hawking.