| Acknowledgments | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction: Finding a Boat to Steer | p. 3 |
| Sun, Sky and Inspiration | p. 13 |
| Christian Complications | p. 31 |
| Seeing the Light | p. 55 |
| In the Beginning... | p. 77 |
| Relics, Singularities and Ripples | p. 95 |
| A Matter of Atoms | p. 115 |
| The Energy to Create Everything | p. 133 |
| Searching in the Dark | p. 159 |
| Exotic Excursions | p. 175 |
| Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Baffling Quasars | p. 181 |
| In Search of Black Holes | p. 213 |
| Blowing It Up Out of All Proportion | p. 233 |
| Everything Tied Up with String | p. 251 |
| Stephen Hawking's Universe | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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