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{{Short description|1965 book by Italo Calvino}}
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{{infobox book | 
| name          = Cosmicomics
| title_orig    = Le Cosmicomiche
| translator    = [[William Weaver]]
| image         = Cosmicomiche.jpg
| caption       = First edition (Einaudi, 1965)<ref name=isfdb>
{{isfdb title |1010555 |Le Cosmicomiche}} (ISFDB). Retrieved 11 March 2012.</ref>
| author        = [[Italo Calvino]]
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = [[M. C. Escher]] ([[Another World (M. C. Escher)|depicted]]) <br>A. Simi (first paper)<ref group=lower-alpha>The ISFDB lists Escher for the first edition and one US paperback edition, probably 1976; no data for the first US and UK editions; A. Simi for the first paperback edition (1970, US).</ref>
| country       = Italy (first)
| language      = Italian (first)
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Science fiction]] [[short stories]]
| publisher     = [[Giulio Einaudi]] (Italian)<br/>[[Harcourt Trade Publishers|Harcourt Brace]] (US)
| pub_date      = 1965
| english_pub_date = 1968 (US, UK)
| media_type    = Print (hardback & paperback (1970))<ref name=isfdb/>
| pages         = 188 (first) <br>153 (US, UK) <br>185 (first paper)
| isbn          = 0-15-622600-6
| isbn_note     = (1976&nbsp;US)<ref name=isfdb/>
| dewey         = 853/.9/14
| congress      = PZ3.C13956 Co8 PQ4809.A45
| oclc          = 2521577
| preceded_by   = 
| followed_by   = 
}}

'''''Cosmicomics''''' ({{langx|it|Le cosmicomiche}}) is a collection of twelve short stories by [[Italo Calvino]] first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals ''Il Caffè'' and [[Il Giorno (newspaper)|''Il Giorno'']]. Each story takes a [[scientific theory]] (some of which have since become deprecated) or phenomenon and builds an imaginative story around it.  An always-extant being called [[Qfwfq]] explicitly narrates all of the stories save two. Every story is a memory of an event in the history of the universe.

All of the stories in ''Cosmicomics'', together with more of Qfwfq stories from ''[[t zero]]'' and other sources, are now available in a single volume collection, ''[[The Complete Cosmicomics]]'' (Penguin UK, 2009).

The first U.S. edition, translated by [[William Weaver]], won the [[National Book Award]] in the [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Translation|Translation category]].<ref name=nba1969>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1969/?cat=fiction&sub-cat=translation "National Book Awards – 1969"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-11. There was a "Translation" award from 1967 to 1983.</ref>