Robert McNees
Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" was published #OTD in 1988.
I read it a few months later, excitedly underlining and starring passages that wowed me, and spent the summer daydreaming about big bangs and black holes.
https://www.hawking.org.uk/in-print/books/a-brief-history-of-time?position=13
John Carlos Baez
@mcnees - I think you might enjoy this book by Penrose and Hawking. It's much more advanced, but still an attempt to explain mainly in words what's going on with general relativity and quantum gravity. Warning: Penrose's sections are often very speculative. But Hawking does things like explain his famous black hole radiation calculation, the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, and more.
Robert McNees
@johncarlosbaez Oh yes, I really enjoyed this book. I think I gave it a go not long after it first came out, when I really wasn't equipped to make much sense of it. But I came back to it at different points in my career, and got something new from it each time.
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