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This book is written in part as a tribute to all of those who 
have helped bring our understanding of the universe to the place it is 
today. Because I wanted to properly and appropriately represent the sci-
ence, and the history, to help me check both I turned to a number of my 
colleagues after I finished the first version of this book. I received com-
ments and useful suggestions and corrections in response, and I want to 
thank both Sheldon Glashow and Wally Gilbert for their suggestions, as 
well as Richard Dawkins, and I am particularly indebted to one of the 
colleagues I admire most for his contributions as a scientist and his sci-
entific integrity, who would rather remain anonymous, for his careful 
reading of the manuscript, and the numerous corrections he proposed. 
Beyond the science, I turned to a friend and one of the writers I admire 
most, who is also a wonderful student of science, for his thoughts on the 
manuscript. Cormac McCarthy, who amazingly volunteered to copyedit 
the paperback version of my earlier book Quantum Man, again went 
through every single page of the manuscript he received, with com-
ments and suggestions to, in his words, "make the book perfect!" I can-
not presume that it now is, but I can say that it is much better thanks to 
his kindness, wisdom, and talent. 
This book would never have been written if determining a publisher 
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hadn't been skillfully managed by my new agent and old friend John 
Brockman and his staff, and happily it worked out that my editor for 
this book was my editor for A Universe from Nothing, Leslie Meredith 
at Atria Books. Leslie is not only a kindred spirit, but was a wonderful 
foil off of which to bounce the ideas in this book. She helped force me 
to make various discussions of the science clearer, even when I thought 
they were already clear, and she encouraged me not to back off from 
my strong views on the need for scientists to speak out about scientific 
nonsense. 
When I faced the arduous task of exploring a variety of significant 
revisions in the final draft, I knew that I could seek safety, support, and 
solitude in the home that my wonderful wife, Nancy, who has saved me 
and inspired me more times than I can count, has made for us, and that 
my stepdaughter, Santal, would quietly tolerate the sound of my typing 
in my study, right above her bedroom, late at night. My staff at the Ori-
gins Project, in particular my executive director and right-hand woman, 
Amelia Huggins, and my longtime executive assistant at Arizona State 
University, Jessica Strycker, pitched in to provide me the support and 
time I needed when I had to take time out from my day job to work on 
this book. And my Phoenix friends Thomas Houlon and Patty Barnes, 
who encouraged me on this book and others, have, over many break-
fasts, given their feedback on a number of the presentations I developed 
as I was writing the book. 
Finally, as I was approaching the last push, my friend Carol Blue, 
Christopher Hitchens's widow, and her father, Edwin Blue, offered me 
use of a guesthouse where Christopher had written many essays and 
books, including his wonderful book God Is Not Great. I cannot think 
of a more inspiring place to have finished, and I can only hope the final 
version carries with it even a small fraction of the eloquence that so 
characterized Christopher's writing. 
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Lawrence M. Krauss is director of the Origins Project at Arizona State 
University and Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space 
Exploration and the Physics Department there. Krauss is an internation-
ally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including 
the interface between elementary-particle physics and cosmology, where 
his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general 
relativity, and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions rang-
ing from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in 
the universe. He has won numerous international awards for both his re-
search and his efforts to improve the public understanding of science. 
Krauss is the only physicist to have received the top awards from all three 
US physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Insti-
tute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 
2012 he was awarded the National Science Board's prestigious Public Ser-
vice Award for his many contributions to public education and the under-
standing of science around the world. Among his other honors are the 
2013 Roma Award, from the city of Rome, and the zois Humanist of the 
Year Award from the American Humanist Association. 
Krauss is the author of more than three hundred scientific publica-
tions, as well as numerous popular articles on science and current af-
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fairs. He is a commentator and essayist for periodicals such as the New 
York Times and the New Yorker and appears regularly on radio, on tele-
vision, and on film. Krauss served as executive producer and subject of 
The Unbelievers, a documentary film that discusses science and reason 
with Richard Dawkins. He also appears in Werner Herzog's new films 
Salt and Fire and Lo and Behold. Krauss is the author of ten popular 
books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Physics of Star Trek 
(e995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012). 
Krauss is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves as the chair 
of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is 
on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists. He 
helped found ScienceDebate, which in 2008, 2012, and 2016 helped raise 
issues of science and sound public policy in the presidential elections 
in those years. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare scientific public 
intellectual, Krauss has dedicated his time, throughout his career, to is-
sues of science and society and has helped spearhead national efforts to 
educate the public about science, ensure sound public policy, and defend 
science against attacks at a variety of levels. 
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