Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan Thursday, December 6, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore. Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that’s rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader. Robin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a Redondo Beach Signed First Edition Pick for October. “Media inventor” and author Robin Sloan has written a novel juxtaposing electronic information with “old knowledge,” and the special magics that lie within the latter. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore began as an on-line novella on Robin’s website, and grew into a book that shares “the happy message that ingenuity and friendship translate across centuries and data platforms” according to Publishers Weekly.

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Blvd Additional: United States City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)