# A Brief History of Time

**Author(s):** Stephen Hawking
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-brief-history-of-time/verdict.json
**Pages:** 212
**Publisher:** andom House Publishing Group
**Published:** Tue Sep 01 1998 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780553380163
**ISBN-10:** 0553380168
**ASIN:** B004WY3D0O
**Amazon categories:** Science & Math > Astronomy & Space Science > Astronomy
**Amazon binding:** $7.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-brief-history-of-time

## Description

Stephen Hawking's ‘A Brief History of Time* has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over ten million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate and inspire new readers each year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening twenty years there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and macro-cosmic world. Indeed, during that time cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age . Professor Hawking is one of the major scientists and thinkers to have contributed to this renaissance.

## SageChimp reader verdict

A Brief History of Time has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
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- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 2.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★ (Untitled) — kristin