And she took the job because, in Lois's words (via Sloan), "Here's a thing I believe about people my age: We are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted." She ended up there kind of by accident: She was good with computers, good with machines, had a perfectly reasonable job in Michigan, close to her family, when she was suddenly recruited out of the blue by the robot people. It concerns one Lois Clary, a young proprioception engineer for a gleaming robotics company in San Francisco called General Dexterity. Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the book community. It knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Mr. It is a beautiful, small, sweet, quiet book.
And books, too, actually, now that I think about it. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, except that it's not about books (exactly), but is absolutely about San Francisco, geeks, nerds, coders, secret societies, bizarrely low-impact conspiracies that solely concern single-noun obsessives (food, in this case, rather than books), and also robots. Robin Sloan's new novel, Sourdough, is exactly like his first book, Mr. It's like Fight Club if Fight Club was written by someone concerned with a different, quieter kind of revolution, and if Fight Club was all about bread. It's like Fight Club if no one got punched. It's like Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off. Think of it like Candide without the pirates.
Tales From the Radiation Age is his latest book.
He is currently the restaurant critic at Philadelphia magazine, but when no one is looking, he spends his time writing books about giant robots and ray guns. Jason Sheehan knows stuff about food, video games, books and Starblazers. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sourdough Author Robin Sloan
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