Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms
The Complete Cosmicomics: SSC
โ Scribed by Italo Calvino;by Martin McLaughlin;Tim Parks;William Weaver (transl)
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Series
- Cosmicomics
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0544231945
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