įirst sentence: “A visitor walks the city, searching.” 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. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. 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. 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. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly giving way to a brand-new industry built on silicon.īut young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future.
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. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye.
Penumbra’s first trip to San Francisco-and of how he got entangled with the city’s most unusual always-open enterprise… Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. ( From the publisher.From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation, while taking on even more satisfying challenges, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer. Leavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms.
She must keep it alive, they tell her-feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread.
She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr.
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