Robin Sloan Knihy

Veselý a vzrušujúci príbeh o knihách a moderných technológiách, o šifrovaní a sprisahaní, priateľstve, mladej láske a tajomstve večného života. Dokonalý príbeh pre 21. storočie, plný záhad, tajomstiev, tajných kódov a krásneho písma. Autor výborne zachytil súčasnosť, vytvoril úplné nový a úžasný svet. Kombinuje prvky fantázie, tajomstva, priateľstva a dobrodružstva ako nový spôsob nazerania na moderný konflikt prechodu medzi novými a starými technológiami. Do kníhkupectva pána Penumbru v San Franciscu nastúpi na nočné smeny nový predavač Clay Jannone, webdesigner, ktorý prišiel o predchádzajúce miesto kvôli ekonomickej kríze. Zákazníkov nie je veľa a do obchodu sa vracajú stále tí istí - ale vlastne si nikdy nič nekúpia. Namiesto toho si požičiavajú temné zväzky zo zadných kútov obchodu a hlásia sa k členstvu v akomsi tajomnom klube pána Penumbru. Zdá sa, že kníhkupectvo je len zásterkou niečoho väčšieho. Clay sa spolieha na to, že mu jeho priatelia - Neel, podnikateľ zo Silicon Valley, a Kat, špecialistka na vizualizáciu dát zamestnaná v Googli - pomôžu zistiť, čo sa vlastne v jeho novom zamestnaní deje. Zo správania zákazníkov vypozoruje osobitý vzorec, ktorý ho následne zavedie k šifrovaným správam. Ukazuje sa, že tajomstvo pána Penumbru ďaleko presahuje múry kníhkupectva.

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...

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

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.