The Fabric of the Cosmos (Abridged): Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality Audiobook

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• “[Greene’s] excitement for science on the threshold of vital breakthroughs is supremely contagious. The Fabric of the Cosmos is as dazzling as it is tough, and it beautifully reflects this theoretician's ardor for his work. In interviews he is sometimes asked where the next generation of physicists will come from. One clear answer: from the brain-teasing, exhilarating study of books like this.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Perhaps the single best explainer of abstruse science in the world today…Greene has a gift for finding the right metaphor.”

  — Washington Post

• “Greene is as elegant as ever, cutting through the fog of complexity with insight and clarity. Space and time, you might even say, become putty in his hands.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “As pure intellectual adventure, this is about as good as it gets…Even compared with A Brief History of Time, Greene’s book stands out for its sweeping ambition…stripping down the mystery from difficult concepts without watering down the science.”

  — Newsday

• “The author’s informed curiosity is inspiring and his enthusiasm infectious.”

  — Kansas City Star

• “Mind-bending…[Greene] is both a gifted theoretical physicist and a graceful popularizer [with] virtuoso explanatory skills.”

  — Oregonian

• “Brian Greene is the new Hawking, only better.”

  — Times (London)

• “Greene’s gravitational pull rivals a black hole’s.”

  — Newsweek

• “Inexhaustibly witty…A must-read for the huge constituency of lay readers enticed by the mysteries of cosmology.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “Greene takes us to the limits of space and time.”

  — Guardian (London)

• “Greene is an excellent teacher, humorous and quick.”

  — Boston Globe

• “If anyone can popularize tough science, it’s Greene.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Greene is a marvelously talented exponent of physics…A pleasure to read.”

  — Economist

• “Magnificent…Sends shivers down the spine.”

  — Financial Times

• “The best exposition and explanation of early 21st-century research into the fundamental nature of the universe as you are likely to find anywhere.”

  — Science

• “Holds out the promise that we may one day explain how space and time have come to exist.”

  — Nature

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• “I recommend Greene’s book to any nonexpert reader who wants an up-to-date account of theoretical physics, written in colloquial language that anyone can understand.”

  — New York Review of Books

• “Relish this exhilarating foray into the alien terrain that is our own universe.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Highly informed, lucid, and witty…There is simply no better introduction to the strange wonders of general relativity and quantum mechanics, the fields of knowledge essential for any real understanding of space and time.”

  — Discover