Cosmicomics
By: by Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Harvest Book
Published: 1968
Place of publication: San Diego
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780156226004
Work titles: Cosmicomiche.
Description: Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?"--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: The distance of the moon.; title: At daybreak.; title: A sign in space.; title: All at one point.; title: Without colors.; title: Games without end.; title: The aquatic uncle.; title: How much shall we bet?.; title: The dinosaurs.; title: The form of space.; title: The light-years.; title: The spiral.