Cosmology -- Fiction

The science of Discworld

by Stewart, Ian, Pratchett, Terry, Cohen, Jack S., (Jack Sidney)

fromDiscworld series

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Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roun…

Star maker

by Stapledon, Olaf

fromSF masterworks

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Begins with the narrator fleeing a domestic argument and walking to the top of a hill to gaze at the stars. He finds himself "astrally projecting" and soon discovers another world, populated by roughly humanoid creatures. After telepathically joining with a sympathetic native, h…

The complete cosmicomics

by Calvino, Italo

fromMethuen Drama modern classics

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Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point of space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, and across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted. This is Italo Calvino's account of the universe as a cosm…

The complete cosmicomics

by Calvino, Italo

fromPenguin modern classics

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Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point of space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, and across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted. This is Italo Calvino's account of the universe as a cosm…