★From the creator of "Ugly Science" winner of the 2020 National Science Disclosure Award.

A surreal time-travel together with Vincenzo, an improbable tardigrade who enlightens us step-by-step on the secrets of the Universe and on life on the Earth. From the Bing Bang to the small “bricks” that make up all things, from living cells to the more complex organisms, we will witness the ruthless struggle for survival that governs our Planet. We will discover, among other things, how the DNA works, many awkward things on reproduction and on natural selection, till the observation of the extinction of the most unfortunate and meaningless creatures. But above all we will be persuaded that whatever exists is the result of an improbable series of events, of such an impossible case as a pack of banana– scented tissues materializing in the cosmic void… With his unique style, Barbascura X write an irriverent and illuminating book, full of illustrations and strips by a cult cartoonist that will help engraving in our minds the basic concepts of physics and biology, a universal and exciting story.

BARBASCURA X is a chemist, a musician, a stand up comedian, one of the most renowned science communicators. On YouTube he created a video format called “ The Ungly Science” in which – dressed as a pirate – he tells the most disgusting side of animals and other organisms to his crew of readers and followers. He was awarded the National Prize for Scientific Communication 2020.

ENRICO MACHIAVELLO is an illustrator, author of comic strips and of film animation and teacher at the International School of Comics. He has worked in the world of advertising and merchandising and he has illustrated many children books. In 2018 he published his first graphic novel.