Robin Sloan

After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret. 75,000 first printing.

A Novel

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Moira

Tabea Lüth

sina (she/her) 

Whenever I walked the streets of San Francisco, I'd watch for HELP WANTED signs in windows - which is not something you really do, right? I should probably be more suspicious of those. Leaitimate employers use Craigslist.

The buzz about Google these days is that it's like America itself: still the biggest game in town, but inevitably and irrevocably on the decline. Both are superpowers with unmatched resources, but both are faced with fast-growing rivals, and both will eventually be eclipsed.

Why do organizations need to mark everything with their insignia? It's like a dog peeing on every tree. Google is the same way. 

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

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