T ZERO

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