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When this book actually addressed the subject-matter indicated by the title, it was profoundly disappointing. The author, for instance, speculates on Aquinas' (and others') understanding of "nothing," suggesting that they probably meant "empty space" or something like it when they spoke of "nothing." In other words, Krauss tries to get us to read his book based on the clam that he is going to address the question of "why there is something rather than nothing" but, then, defines "nothing" as "something," and has the audacity to claim that Aquinas and other agreed with him! Not only is Krauss' claim about Aquinas false (Aquinas sees "nothing" as the absence of being altogether, hence it is a negation of being and not a "thing"), something he could have discovered rather easily if he had taken time to investigate it, but he leaves us without an answer to the question on the cover of his book by a sleight of hand move by changing the meaning of the word "nothing." Once he gives "reality" to nothing he can then go on to speak of more reality coming from that "nothing" (which is really something and therefore able to serve as a substrate for other things).