Robin Sloan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-21491-3
For those who fear that the Internet/e-readers/whatever-form-of-technological-upheaval-is-coming has killed or will kill paper and ink, Sloan’s debut novel will come as good news. A denizen of the tech world and self-described “media inventor” (forme
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Robin Sloan, read by Ari Fliakos. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.75 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3374-5
Unable to find work as a digital marketer or Web designer, Clay Jannon lands a gig on the night shift at the eponymous bookstore, where customers shuffle in to borrow strange books—but not to buy anything. Suspicious, Clay and his friends begin to...
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Robin Sloan. MCD, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-20310-8
San Francisco’s technology and food cultures collide and collude in Sloan’s latest novel, following Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Robotics programmer Lois Clary subsists on an unappetizing diet that includes frequent servings of Tetra Pak–wrapped
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Robin Sloan. MCD, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-61060-9
A young boy goes on a quirky quest through a postapocalyptic world in bestseller Sloan’s gentle yet thought-provoking adventure set 11,000 years after humanity lost a war to the genetically engineered “dragons” it had developed for space exploration.
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