The Complete Cosmicomics

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| name = The Complete Cosmicomics

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| translators = William Weaver
Martin McLaughlin
Tim Parks

| image = File:TheCompleteCosmicomics.jpg

| caption = First English edition

| author = Italo Calvino

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| country = Italy (first)

| language = Italian (first)

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| genre = Science fiction

| publisher = Penguin Books (UK)

| release_date = May 2009

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| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

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| 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;{{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 |author-link=Julie Phillips}} however, the introduction by McLaughlin claims that the book contains all the Cosmicomics.{{Cite book |title=The Complete Cosmocomics |last=Calvino |first=Italo |date=2015 |publisher=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}}}} of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino.

The single volume collection includes the following:{{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}}

• The 12 stories that comprise Cosmicomics
• 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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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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