"Truly excellent . . . sophisticated . . . will probably be read by every student of relativity, astrophysics, and field theory for years to come." —James W. York, Physics Today

"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding. I do not doubt that Wald's book will be require reading for anyone who wishes to have an understanding of the modern approaches to general relativity." —S. Chandrasekhar

" General Relativity is an excellent book, and it should fill a gap in the literature that has opened up, over the past several years, for a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date graduate text in general relativity. This main strengths of this work lie in the way that the author is able to present the necessary basic material of a subject which has such a breadth of different kinds of technique, ranging from the rather specialized and intricate differential topology and causal analysis that is needed for the singularity theorems, through tensor and 2-spinor calculus, to particle physics and astrophysics." —Roger Penrose

"A tour de force: lucid, straightforward, mathematically rigorous, exacting in the analysis of the theory in its physical aspect." —L. P. Hughston, Times Higher Education Supplement