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Together for the first time, a new translation of the revered, contemporary Italian author's short stories describing the beginning of the universe and other natural phenomena builds creative tales around well-known scientific facts.
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Italo Calvino tells stories about beings engaging with the universe in the early days of the universe's existence. The stories hinge on scientific knowledge of the sixties about the Earth's formation and the first development of life and atoms and molecules. The stories are fun and surprising while also being science-based (at least the science-of-the-time-based).