The one Calvino book I've read was Cosmicomics. It was an entertaining
collection of Scientific Fables. Each of the stories was narrated by the
immortal Qfwfq who relates a story about some scientific principle
(The-Big-Bang: on how crowded it was back then, Continous-Creation: Playing
billiards with the spontaneously created hydrogen atoms, and the like).
The wry tone is quuite similar to Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide To The
Galaxy". Unfortunately, Calvino are hard to find. Other books of his that
hav been recommended that I'm still looking for are "T-Zero" & "If on a
Winter's Night a Traveler".
[C] == Short Story Collection.
[S] == Scholarly
aka == Also known by this other title.
/John
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Calvino, Italo [Italy, 11/15/1923-9/19/1985]
Cosmicomics [1965:1968] [C]
T-Zero [1967:1969] [C] [aka "Time and the Hunter"]
The Watcher and Other Stories [1965:1971] [C]
Invisible Cities [1972:1974]
The Castle of Crossed Destinies [1973:1976] [C]
The Baron in the Trees [1957:1977]
The Non-existent Knight & The Cloven Viscount [1956,1957:1977]
Our Ancestors [1960:1980] [C]
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler [1979:1981]
Italian Folk Tales [:1981] [C]
Mr. Palomar [1983:1985] [C]
The Uses of Literature [:1986] [S]
Under the Jaguar Sun [1986:1988] [C]
