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“We have been peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, whilst the swap came about: the only, nice swap I’ve ever occurred to witness, and in comparison to it the remainder is nothing.” — from The entire Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino’s loved cosmicomics go planets and traverse galaxies, accelerate time or gradual it all the way down to the debris of an rapid. during the eyes of an ageless advisor named Qfwfq, Calvino explores ordinary phenomena and tells the tale of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and clever, those thirty-four fantastic tales — gathered right here in a single definitive anthology — relate advanced medical and mathematical techniques to our daily global. they're an indelible (and unfailingly pleasant) literary achievement.

“Nimble and sometimes hilarious . . . attempting to describe this type of assorted and unique combine, i need to admit, simply as Calvino does so usually, that my phrases fail the following, too. There’s no means I — or an individual, relatively — can muster sufficient of them to fairly trap the magic of those tales . . . learn this e-book, please.” — Colin Dwyer, NPR