Hawking’s grand design?

Edgar Andrews  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Nov 2010
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THE GRAND DESIGN
By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Bantam Books. 208 pages. £18.99
ISBN 978-0-59305-829-9

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking sold over nine million copies of his book A Brief History of Time. Now, 22 years later, he has co-authored The Grand Design which immediately hit the No. 1 spot in the New York Times best-seller list.

But the sequel is so inferior to the prequel in intellectual quality that a reviewer in The Times Saturday Review (September 11 2010) wote: ‘It reads like a stretched magazine article ... there is too much padding and too much recycling of long-stale material... I doubt whether The Grand Design would have been published if Hawking’s name were not on the cover’.

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