My Brief History

　　畢生專注於探索宇宙，史蒂芬．霍金的第一本親筆自傳則揭露一個傑出科學家一路走來的所思所聞！

　　寫過《時間簡史》，這次霍金寫的是自己的歷史：一個在二戰後的倫敦長大的男孩，如何成為享譽國際的重量級科學家？書中收錄許多首次公開的霍金生活照，風格簡明而幽默地展露出霍金鮮為人知的青春歲月：充滿好奇心而被同學暱稱為愛因斯坦的男孩、開玩笑開到拿黑洞的存在來打賭、竭力研究物理學和宇宙論的同時，努力當好一個丈夫和父親。

　　霍金以謙遜態度和獨到的幽默口吻，娓娓道來他21歲開始與肌萎縮脊椎側索硬化症共處的生活。身為一位知識家，霍金闡述患病所帶來的生命危機如何激勵出無人能及的知識成就，並揭露他的世紀代表作《時間簡史》如何成形。

　　一本偉大科學家的個人簡史，充滿灼見與智慧而不失親切，討論了大半輩子的宇宙，這次霍金將帶你一窺他的內在宇宙。(文／博客來編譯)

　　Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.

　　My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty, and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology.

　　Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time — one of the iconic books of the twentieth century.

　　Clear-eyed, intimate, and wise, My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawking’s personal cosmos.