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Robin Sloan Books

    Robin Sloan crafts narratives that explore the captivating intersection of the old world and the digital age. His works delve into how technology and mystery intertwine in contemporary life, often touching on themes of shared knowledge and digital identity. Sloan's style is playful and intelligent, drawing readers into stories filled with discovery and unexpected turns. He writes about finding ourselves in a world brimming with secrets and how those secrets persist even in our hyper-connected times.

    Robin Sloan
    Il segreto della libreria sempre aperta
    Moonbound
    Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
    Sourdough
    Ajax Penumbra 1969

    • Ajax Penumbra 1969

      • 99 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.2(32)Add rating

      San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young, earnest Ajax Penumbra has been given his first assignment as a Junior Acquisitions Officer - to find the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles upon a 24-hour bookstore and the possibilities before him expand exponentially. With the help of his friend's homemade computer, an ancient map, a sunken ship and the vast shelves of the 24-hour bookstore, Ajax Penumbra might just find what he's seeking...

      Ajax Penumbra 1969

    • Sourdough

      3.8(1077)Add rating

      Genius-level observant, wonderfully written and absolutely brilliant Daily Mail

      Sourdough

    • Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

      3.7(177613)Add rating

      Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone - and serendipity, coupled with sheer curiosity, has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests.

      Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

    • Moonbound

      Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure. In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science fiction, fantasy, good old-fashioned literary storytelling, and unrivaled enthusiasm for what’s next. It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history—and becomes both Ariel’s greatest ally and the narrator of our story. Moonbound is an adventure into the richest depths of Story itself. It is a deeply satisfying epic of ancient scale, blasted through the imaginative prism one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.

      Moonbound