The late Stephen Hawking has a unique, beautiful gift. He can break down complex and challenging phenomena in cosmology and astrophysics and make it easy to understand with wit, humour, and some jokes added in the mix. From Dark Matter to Black Holes, Quarks to Super Nova, he was able to bring the understanding of space and atoms from the ancients to the current time to a wider and broader audience. He has stimulated the interest in physics, astrophysics and space for a new generation. Hawkings has occupied the chair that Sir Issac Newton once occupied, the Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics and was born on the 300th death anniversary of Galileo Galilei and died on the 139th birth anniversary of Albert Einstein. Hawkings famously hosted a party, and he did not send invites and announcements till after the event to see if any time-traveller from the future would drop in. I brought this book years ago, and I had read some parts but never in one go. Stephen