Written by Stephen W. Hawkins - Narrated by Simon Prebble - Unabridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 4 hours

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (November 2001)

Like many in the community of theoretical physicists, Professor Hawking is after the Grail of science-the Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos. He involves us in the attempts at uncovering its secrets-from super gravity to super symmetry, from quantum theory to M-theory, from holography to duality, and now, at the very frontiers of science, superstring theory and p-branes. He shares his eagerness to "combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe."

With characteristic exuberance, Hawking invites us to be fellow travelers on this extraordinary voyage through space-time.

About the Author: Stephen W. Hawkins is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.