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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Cosmicomics is a collection of short stories, connected through a frame story. A 1965 work by Italo Calvino, in which scientific facts become premises for the mind screwy tales and love stories of an undefined being named Qfwfq.As indicated by its title, Cosmicomics is a book that is at once cosmic and comic, the sublime and the ridiculous coexisting on the same plane. Each chapter opens with a scientific fact and a following assertion by Qfwfq that he was there to see that science in action, before launching into a narrative that spins an imaginative and strangely human story from a seemingly cut-and-dry factoid with inhuman creatures as the characters. Atoms and galaxies become toys for children. A universe comes into being thanks to a statement about tagliatelle. Major historical events on Earth are the subjects of bidding between immortals. The love between two mollusks enables everyone around them to gain eyesight. Sometimes the scientific premise will actually be a disproven one. This in no way hinders Qfwfq.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Truly, Cosmicomics is a work best experienced through firsthand reading than secondhand telling. If you've ever wanted to know just how inventive stories based on scientific theories and principles can get, this book will be more than happy to show you - and maybe get you to see more than a little bit of yourself in seemingly cosmic and unapproachable beings.
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 Exposition of Immortality: The stories are told in first person as the memories of the extremely old narrator, Qfwfq. Among Qfwfq's memories are when he was among the first amphibians that colonized land, when he invented seashells, and his infancy before the Solar System formed.
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 All Love Is Unrequited: In "The Distance of the Moon," Qfwfq loves Mrs. Vhd Vhd who loves Qfwfq's disabled cousin the Deaf One who loves the moon.
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 Cheesy Moon: In "The Distance of the Moon", the moon is depicted as having once been close enough to Earth for people to regularly get cheese and milk from it.
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