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020 _a9780544146440 (hb.)
082 _a853.914
_bCAL
100 _aCalvino, Italo
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245 _aThe Complete Cosmicomics
260 _aBoston
_bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
_c2014
300 _axxiv, 401p.,
520 _aItalo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-544-14644-0 Reviewed by Seth Satterlee. Nearly 50 years after the publication of the original Cosmicomics, Calvino's 34 connected tales%E2%80%94spanning three separate collections%E2%80%94are finally together for the first time in English. The majority of the stories begin with a scientific assertion (reasonable or far-fetched) and feature the omnipresent narrator Qfwfq, cosmological guide and witness to the origins and formation of the universe.
650 _aCosmic Radiation
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650 _aExtraterrestrials
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650 _aSingers
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942 _cBK
999 _c10182
_d10182