First published in 1999 in Great Britain

By Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Copyright © 2000 by Martin Rees

Published by Basic Books,

A Member of the Perseus Books Group

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Typeset at The Spartan Press Ltd,

Lymington, Hants

A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-13: 978-0-786-72358-4

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