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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).
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This would actually be fascinating as a comic. I could almost see the panels as the book progressed, although I'm not sure what the panels would look like. The exploration of the cosmos from a personal, individual perspective, shows just how warped our human perceptions are when it comes to the big issues of life.
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