Robin Sloan

Ajax Penumbra

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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…
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73 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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    APPENDIX

    Books on display in Al-Asmari’s 24-Hour Bookstore in September 1969, on the low table labeled MO’S PICKS:
    The High King, Lloyd Alexander
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
    Naked Came the Stranger, Penelope Ashe
    The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
    The Drowned World, J. G. Ballard
  • Isahas quoted3 years ago
    In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
    Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
    The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
    The Secret Meaning of Things, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Fantastic Four #89, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
    The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
    The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer
    Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock
    Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
    City of the Chasch, Jack Vance
    Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
  • Isahas quoted3 years ago
    plucks a book out of the trunk and presents it to you. The cover shows a pale, swirling galaxy. It is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation; Claude has spoken of this one often.

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