THE GRAND DESIGN
By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Bantam Books. 208 pages. £18.99
ISBN 978-0-59305-829-9
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking sold over nine million copies of his book A Brief History of Time. Now, 22 years later, he has co-authored The Grand Design which immediately hit the No. 1 spot in the New York Times best-seller list.
But the sequel is so inferior to the prequel in intellectual quality that a reviewer in The Times Saturday Review (September 11 2010) wote: ‘It reads like a stretched magazine article ... there is too much padding and too much recycling of long-stale material... I doubt whether The Grand Design would have been published if Hawking’s name were not on the cover’.
