Ajax Penumbra 1969 Single eBook Robin Sloan
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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 an unprecedented subway tunnel is being built under the bay. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly giving way to a brand-new industry built on silicon.
But young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book—the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library. 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 across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially . . .
Ajax Penumbra 1969 Single eBook Robin Sloan
This "single" (short? novelette? novella? - I don't see a word count) is a fun little prequel to Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store. I'm from that SF Bay Area part of the world, and of that time, so the story resonated with me on a variety of levels. So unsurprising that the clerk Corvina turned out as he did. Anyway, my feeling is that if you are bookish and like reference hunting, and/or enjoyed Mr. Penumbra's ... you'll like this short, too. Recommended!Product details
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Ajax Penumbra 1969 Single eBook Robin Sloan Reviews
I hesitate to give anything 5 stars, but in deference to the reader, I did so here. This is a charming fable about an impossible hunt for something impossible to find. It is well worth a couple of hours of your time - especially if you are a book fanatic, as I am. Read it, you'll like it.
I loved getting to know more about Ajax Penumbra and how he got to be part of the society and how he got to the bookstore. I really wish we got more of his story though, I feel like it would only get more interesting. However, even this little bit was exciting! Always a new adventure.
After reading the novel "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" and coming out to to write a review, I discovered Robin Sloan had written this e-prequel, and for only $2.99 I could read a short story about Penumbra and his first encounter with our favorite bookstore.
It was well worth it.
Yes, Yes, I know, I've read the other reviews, and no, this isn't quite the deep mystery that the novel was, and no, this doesn't offer any additional character development of Penumbra other than a little personal background, but this is still a fun story that relates how he discovered the store and how he met some of the people in the novel. Don't have high literary hopes; just read this for fun.
Some could be right -- this very well may be left over stuff from the novel, that stuff that some authors have to cut for the overall flow of the novel; it happens all the time. Or it could be that Sloan had a little bit more he wanted to tell because he enjoyed this world so much that he wanted to make one last visit.
I don't care either way -- it was fun, it was worth the time and the money. If you enjoyed the novel, then splurge, it'll make you smile.
A prequel short story to Mr. Penumbra's 24-hr Bookstore. We meet Mr. Penumbra, Ajax, at the start of his collegiate career when he and his roommate are put together via a new and sophisticated computer program. He is confused by this but as they start unpacking and all the books come out, he starts to realize that the computer may have been on to something. His roommate is heavily into computers and pursues that as his major while Ajax ends up in the literary department, eventually getting a job with them which leads him to becoming a Jr. procurer of a rare book that has been presumed lost for over a century. His search leads him to San Francisco where he stumbles into a 24-hr bookstore. There he finds people who truly understand his passions and a life he had never before dreamed of. The rest, as they say, is history.
A nice little add-on story as we learn how Ajax and Marcus first met and how Ajax became involved in the society and its mission. If you've read and enjoyed Mr. Penumbra's 24-hr bookstore, you'll appreciate this bit of backstory.
Such a good book! If you’ve read “Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore” this book is just as magical. If you haven’t, read this first because it sets the mood and puts you in the perfect space to enter “Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore”. San Francisco, rumors, tall tales, indomitable spirit. It’s all here. I listened to the audiobook but now I need the book book to keep so I can see it because it will make me smile. Such a good author! You can smell the city (and sometimes the people).
Even though it is written in present continuous - my pet hate - nevertheless I could not put it down and I read the piece at the end, from another book by the same author, with full intention to complete that too.
A book about books and computers - my two favorite non-human subjects. Interestingly complicated. I loved it and I joined the many book lovers who searched for "the Dragonsong Chronicles" and the writer Moffat. To be disappointed that they are the writers invention. A really convincing one. Recommended.
O.K. You finished Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore A Novel and you loved it or admired it or were impressed by it or just got a kick out of it. It was, in any event, so well written that you immediately checked to see if there was anything else out there by Robin Sloane. There was Annabel Scheme, which was well enough reviewed but not anything like "Penumbra". And then this nice short Single popped up just when you were resigned to waiting for Mr. Sloane's next novel. Oh, boy.
Well, I found this short story very satisfying. Ajax Penumbra is a fine character and it is a pleasure to have him drawn from the novel's shadows and set right on center stage. This version of San Francisco is as moody, vital and strange as the later version that serves as the novel's backdrop. The writing is a bit less flashy, but its calm restraint and attention to delicate detail is welcome. If anything, it may benefit from not having to carry the burden of a novel's full scale plot, with its loose ends and sometimes strained resolutions.
So, a very nice stand alone if you want to sample Mr. Sloan and a very satisfying companion to "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". I could get to like this Single phenomenon.
This "single" (short? novelette? novella? - I don't see a word count) is a fun little prequel to Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book . I'm from that SF Bay Area part of the world, and of that time, so the story resonated with me on a variety of levels. So unsurprising that the clerk Corvina turned out as he did. Anyway, my feeling is that if you are bookish and like reference hunting, and/or enjoyed Mr. Penumbra's ... you'll like this short, too. Recommended!
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