''The Complete Cosmicomics'' is a 2009 book that collects all of the ''Cosmicomic'' stories by Italian postmodern writer

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, ; ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosm ...

. The single volume collection includes the following: * The 12 stories that comprise ''

Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics'' () is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals ''Il Caffè'' and ''Il ...

'' * The 11 stories that comprise '' t zero'' (also published as ''Time and the Hunter'') * 4 stories from ''Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories'' * 7 stories newly translated by Martin McLaughlin (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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