A Brief History of Everything is an easy-to-understand and fascinating book about the development history of modern science, which can be called the best book about the development history of science written by ordinary readers so far. The author Blethen has written many interesting stories from BIGBANG to the development of human civilization with clear and humorous brushstrokes. Without any profound knowledge, we can enjoy the miracles and achievements of science and feel the surprise and beauty of the world in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

After the book was published in the United States in May 2003, it topped the list of The New York Times and The Times for dozens of weeks, ranked among the top ten bestsellers in Amazon.com in 2003, and even won the annual list of science books. At the beginning of 2004, it was selected as the best scientific work in 2003 by American Science magazine. In June 2004, he won the Aventis Prize, the world's most famous popular science book award from the Royal Society.

When the Chinese version of this book was published in China from June 5 to April 38, 2005, President Peking University and Academician Xu Zhihong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences personally prefaced this book, and the first chief scientist of the National Superconducting Expert Committee, Gan, and the President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry, Peter? Agins, internationally renowned scientist Tim? Famous professors from many universities in flannery and China jointly recommended this book to readers, setting a rare sales volume of 40,000 copies of this popular science book. Today, this book is still a frequent visitor to the list of major non-literary bestsellers.