#29 in Popular science
A Briefer History of Time
- 176
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Briefer History of Time” is compact, informative popular science: the universe explained in under two hundred pages. Some readers find Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s book much the same as “A Brief History of Time” and feel the added colour illustrations contribute little, so they would keep to the original. Anyone new to the subject and short of time can start here.
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About the book
A Briefer History of Time is a 2006 popular-science book by the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 149 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 50% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Popular science average of 8.3. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 24 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 125 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Briefer History of Time?
It has 176 pages — shorter than 94% of the ranked books in Popular science.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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