Robin Sloan

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone - and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay finds that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to...

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.
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 remote village under a wizard's rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of eye-popping discoveries and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to rescue the world, a girl. Here,

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From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco-and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise... It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and...

Das atemberaubende neue Abenteuer vom Autor von "Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra" Die ferne Zukunft. Das Leben auf unserem Planeten hat sich auf dramatische Weise verändert - und doch ist vieles immer noch so, wie wir es kennen. Der junge Ariel de la Sauvage lebt in einem kleinen Dorf, das von einem Zauberer regiert und von Rittern beschützt wird. Er liebt es, sich glorreiche Abenteuer auszumalen, während er die Wälder um seine Heimat...