- Author Name : Stephen Hawking
- Subject : Popular Science
- Language : English
- Cover : Paper Back
- No of Pages : 212
- Publish Year : 1998
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book on theoretical cosmology by English physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and eventual fate of the Universe, which is the object of study of astronomy and modern physics.