Facts about A Brief History of Time

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   Hawking originally wrote A Brief History of Time to help fund his daughter's school fees, according to his own accounts.

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   Cosmology topics covered in A Brief History of Time include the Big Bang, black holes, light cones, and the nature of time itself.

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   Published in 1988, A Brief History of Time was originally estimated by Hawking's editor to sell around 1 million copies.

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   Errol Morris directed a 1991 documentary film adaptation of A Brief History of Time, featuring interviews with Hawking and his family.

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   Written for a general audience, A Brief History of Time contains almost no mathematical equations, with the famous exception of E=mc².

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   Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time spent over four years on the Sunday Times bestseller list after its 1988 publication.

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