In Retrospect: Calvino's Cosmicomics

Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman: Alan Lightman is a physicist, writer and adjunct professor of humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. His forthcoming book, the narrative poem Song of Two Worlds, will be published in October 2009.

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7253, 329-329

Abstract: The soaring imagination of the Italian author abounds in a new compilation of his cosmic fables. Mostly written in the age of the space race, they are heavily informed by science, finds Alan Lightman.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/460329a

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