# The Distance of the Moon

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- Book: [The Distance of the Moon](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/the-distance-of-the-moon) ([The Distance of the Moon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/the-distance-of-the-moon.md))
- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-911-4
- Published: 2018-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.