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Cosmicomics

Critical Essays

The Nearness of the Moon
ByAnna Hundert July 30, 2019September 16, 2025

Italo Calvino’s work reminds us that curiosity itself is a kind of gravity, a pull that is difficult to understand or measure and yet is instinctively, unavoidably felt.

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Space Fiction vs. Space Discovery
ByMickey Osthimer March 26, 2017

Much of Earth is no longer habitable; still, the child reaches for the milk, the branch drinks from the root, and time goes on. You don’t remember when or where you heard it, but every so often you yearn for the reminder that the stars look very different today. And time goes on.

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