t zero

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The book t zero (Ti con zero) is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, t₀ , is considered by the hunter against known previous seconds (t_-1 , t_-2 , ...) and hypothetical future seconds (t₁ , t₂ , ...)

"Qfwfq" (an always extant being introduced in Cosmicomics) narrates the first set of stories in the collection, which take a scientific fact, and build a wonderfully imaginative story around it. Other stories in the book diverge to a greater or lesser degree from this scientific theme. The final story in the collection is a postmodern pastiche of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.

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• Italo Calvino. t zero (Translated from the Italian by William Weaver). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. ISBN 0-15-692400-5