Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino · 1965
Stories narrated by a being who witnessed the Big Bang, the formation of the moon, the first colors. Calvino turns science into fable with absolute conviction.
The case against
Every story runs the same machine: a scientific epigraph, then Qfwfq was there, then a love triangle among protozoa or galaxies. Read two and you are charmed; read all twelve straight and the whimsy starts to feel like a parlor trick. The 1960s cosmology has also aged, though Calvino would have shrugged at that.
Short Stories · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
if this one calls to you, so will these →
