The Complete Cosmicomics
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The Complete Cosmicomics is a 2009 book that collects almost all of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 postmodern writer Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...

. The book is not currently available in the United States.

The single volume collection includes the following:
  • The 12 stories that comprise Cosmicomics
    Cosmicomics
    Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. Each story takes a scientific "fact" , and builds an imaginative story around it...

  • The 11 stories that comprise t zero
    T zero
    t zero is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter...

    (also published as Time and the Hunter)
  • 4 stories from Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
  • 7 stories newly translated by Martin McLaughlin
    Martin McLaughlin
    Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College...

    (available for the first time in English)


Translator Martin McLaughlin explains the origins of the seven new stories in his introduction to The Complete Cosmicomics:
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