The Order of Time

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Published by Riverhead Books 2018

Copyright © 2017 by Adelphi Edizioni SPA, Milano

Translation copyright © 2018 by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

First published in Italy by Adelphi Edizioni SPA under the title L’ordine del tempo 2017

English translation published simultaneously in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK and in the United States of America by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rovelli, Carlo, author. | Segre, Erica, translator. | Carnell, Simon, translator.

Title: The order of time / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.

Other titles: Ordine del tempo. English

Description: First American edition. | New York : Riverhead Books, 2018. | Originally published in Italian: L’ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017). | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017060293 | ISBN 9780735216105 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735216129 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Space and time. | Time. | Presentism (Philosophy). | Cosmology.

Classification: LCC QC173.59.S65 R6813 2018 | DDC 530.11—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017060293

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