# The Complete Cosmicomics

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{{Short description|2009 Italo Calvino short story collection}}
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{{Infobox book 
| name          = The Complete Cosmicomics
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| translators    = [William Weaver](/source/William_Weaver) <br> [Martin McLaughlin](/source/Martin_McLaughlin_(academic)) <br> [Tim Parks](/source/Tim_Parks) 
| image         = File:TheCompleteCosmicomics.jpg
| caption       = First English edition
| author        = [Italo Calvino](/source/Italo_Calvino)
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| country       = Italy (first)
| language      = Italian (first)
| series        = 
| subject       = 
| genre         = [Science fiction](/source/Science_fiction)
| publisher     = [Penguin Books](/source/Penguin_Books) (UK)
| release_date  = May 2009
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| media_type    = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages         = 
| isbn          = 978-1-84614-165-2 
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'''''The Complete Cosmicomics''''' is a 2009 book that collects  all{{efn|name=fn1|"Almost all" according to ''The Village Voice'';<ref name="Phillips2009">{{Cite news |title=The Complete Cosmicomics, a Holy Grail for Italo Calvino Fans |last=Phillips |first=Julie |date=2009-07-20 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-22/books/the-complete-cosmicomics-a-holy-grail-for-italo-calvino-fans/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729090300/http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-07-22/books/the-complete-cosmicomics-a-holy-grail-for-italo-calvino-fans/ |archive-date=2009-07-29 |access-date=2010-01-25 |work=[The Village Voice](/source/The_Village_Voice) |author-link=Julie Phillips}}</ref> however, the introduction by McLaughlin claims that the book contains ''all'' the Cosmicomics.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Complete Cosmocomics |last=Calvino |first=Italo |date=2015 |publisher=[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt](/source/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt) | contribution=Introduction |contributor=Martin L. McLaughlin |contributor-link=Martin McLaughlin (academic) |isbn=978-0-544-57787-9 |edition=first U.S. |location=Boston |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9LPqDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT8&pg=PT8 8{{ndash}}9] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9LPqDwAAQBAJ |url-access=limited |translator-last=McLaughlin |translator-first=Martin L. |lccn=2014001375 |access-date=2025-03-27 |translator-last2=Parks |translator-first2=Tim |translator-last3=Weaver |translator-first3=William |translator-link2=Tim Parks |translator-link3=William Weaver}}</ref>}} of the ''Cosmicomic'' stories by Italian postmodern writer [Italo Calvino](/source/Italo_Calvino).

The single volume collection includes the following:<ref name="Esposito2009">{{Cite web |title=The Complete Cosmicomics: Full Contents and Details On Seven Newly Translated Stories |url=http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-complete-cosmicomics-full-contents-and-details-on-seven-newly-translated-stories |last=Esposito |first=Scott |date=2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127075215/http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-complete-cosmicomics-full-contents-and-details-on-seven-newly-translated-stories |archive-date=2010-01-27 |access-date=2010-01-25 |website=The Quarterly Conversation}}</ref>

* The 12 stories that comprise ''[Cosmicomics](/source/Cosmicomics)''
* The 11 stories that comprise ''[t zero](/source/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](/source/Martin_McLaughlin_(academic)) (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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A little-known third collection – ''La memoria del mondo e altre storie cosmicomiche'' ("World Memory and Other Cosmicomic Stories") (1968), a volume not available commercially in Italy – offered 20 fictions in all, 12 from the previous two collections [''Cosmicomics'' and ''t zero''] and eight new pieces (seven of these new items are translated here for the first time into English; the other new 1968 tale, the title story, was translated by Tim Parks as "World Memory" in the 1992 volume ''Numbers in the Dark'').
}}

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