Robin Sloan

Na dvore vtoraja polovina chetyrnadtsatogo tysjacheletija, i mir dovolno stranen.Povorotnye sobytija v istorii etogo mira nam, chitateljam, esche tolko predstojat: torzhestvo vysokikh tekhnologij, kakoe nam poka i ne snilos, i vojna, i gibel chelovechestva, a potom ego vozrozhdenie i novyj mir. I odnazhdy nastupit den, kogda malchik iz zaterjannoj derevni, kotoroj pravit volshebnik (v etom novom mire est volshebniki, no oni ne sovsem volshebniki), najdet v gorakh nechto udivitelnoe, narushit zavedennyj porjadok, otpravitsja v dolgij put k dalekoj tseli, i v stranstvijakh emu vypadut zakhvatyvajuschie prikljuchenija.V etoj sage budut rytsari i oruzhenostsy, rytsarskie mechi (s osobennostjami) i mumii, brodjachie roboty i govorjaschie bobry, pererabotka vtorsyrja i gennaja inzhenerija, sorok tri milliona izmerenij (ne pytajtes ikh voobrazit), staroe kino i, kak ni stranno, drakony (no oni ne sovsem drakony). I pogoni, i opasnosti, i konstruktivnye debaty, i sudba Zemli. I obo vsem etom (a takzhe o mnogom drugom) nam rasskazhet khronist - iskusstvennyj intellekt, prishelets iz proshlogo, znatok i khranitel istorii chelovechestva, sojuznik togo, komu suzhdeno etu istoriju peremenit.Dlja Robina Slouna, pisatelja i futurologa, analogovoe neotdelimo ot tsifrovogo, a prikljuchenija ljudej - ot prikljuchenij idej. Ego miry oshelomitelny, ujutny, i v nikh khochetsja zhit. "Pod drakonej lunoj" - skazochnyj epik i istorija vzroslenija, rytsarskij kvest i futurologicheskij prognoz. Odin malchik s rannego detstva znal, chto emu suzhdeno sovershit nechto znachitelnoe. Eto istorija o tom, chto on ne oshibsja.Vpervye na russkom!

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure. It is eleven thousand years from now. A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a remote village under a wizard's rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of eye-popping discoveries and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to rescue the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive artificial intelligence with a special perspective on all of human history--who becomes both Ariel's greatest ally . . . and our narrator. Moonbound is an adventure into the richest depths of Story itself from the creator of the Penumbraverse, Robin Sloan. It is a deeply satisfying epic of ancient scale, blasted through the imaginative prism of one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure. It is eleven thousand years from now. A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a remote village under a wizard's rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of eye-popping discoveries and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to rescue the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive artificial intelligence with a special perspective on all of human history--who becomes both Ariel's greatest ally . . . and our narrator. Moonbound is an adventure into the richest depths of Story itself from the creator of the Penumbraverse, Robin Sloan. It is a deeply satisfying epic of ancient scale, blasted through the imaginative prism of one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.

Tajnye obschestva i poiski bessmertija, drevnie knigi, starinnye tipografii, podzemnye chitalnye zaly, pylnye sklady poterjannykh artefaktov i blestjaschie khranilischa dannykh "Gugla", zubodrobitelnye shifry, vizualizatsija dannykh, nastojaschij kvest, nastojaschaja druzhba, mnogoobeschajuschaja ljubov i, kak ni stranno, drakony. Vse eto svalilos na veb-dizajnera Kleja Dzhennona, potomu chto on, poterjav rabotu i bestselno bluzhdaja po San-Frantsisko, nenarokom zavernul v kruglosutochnyj (i, mezhdu prochim, vertikalnyj) knizhnyj magazin. I totchas ustroilsja tuda prodavtsom, kotoryj nichem ne torguet - tolko vydaet javno oderzhimym ljudjam zagadochnye toma nechitabelnoj abrakadabry v obmen na drugie takie zhe nechitabelnye toma. Sredi nochi. Konechno, Klej popytaetsja razgadat, chto tvoritsja u mistera Penumbry v magazine. Konechno, vyjasnitsja, chto zdes kroetsja mnogovekovaja tajna, starinnyj nerazgadannyj shifr. I etot shifr vmeste s Kleem budut vzlamyvat kodery i bibliotekari, arkheologi i dizajnery, khakery i muzejnye khraniteli, sozdateli spetseffektov i skalolazy. "Kruglosutochnyj knizhnyj mistera Penumbry" pobyval v spiskakh bestsellerov The New York Times i National Public Radio, srazu posle publikatsii byl priznan knigoj goda po versii Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle i NPR, a vposledstvii izdan v tridtsati s lishnim stranakh. Eta kniga - poklon Nilu Stivensonu, Uiljamu Gibsonu, Kharuki Murakami, Denu Braunu i rannemu Umberto Eko, no glavnym obrazom - futurologicheskim teorijam samogo Robina Slouna, kotoryj s legkostju primirjaet adeptov lampovogo mira bumazhnykh knig s obitateljami neosjazaemoj tsifrovoj vselennoj, potomu chto prosto-naprosto ne vidit mezhdu nimi protivorechij. Mir analogovyj i mir digitalnyj udivitelny, dobry i polny zagadok. My rodilis dlja togo, chtoby ikh razgadyvat - po vozmozhnosti vmeste so vsemi, kogo ljubim. Roman "Kruglosutochnyj knizhnyj mistera Penumbry" i ego predystorija, povest "Ajaks Penumbra 1969", publikujutsja v novom perevode i vpervye pod odnoj oblozhkoj.

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Robin Sloan's New York Times bestseller, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, with a new foreword by Paul Yamazaki and featuring the story Ajax Penumbra 1969. A winner of the Alex Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First FictionNamed a best book of the year by Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything--instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls. Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.

From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker. Includes the new story The Suitcase Clone Named a best book of the year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. 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. Then, disaster Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her--feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she's providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market--and a whole new world opens up.

"Ja sobiralas, kak obychno, pouzhinat pitatelnym gelem, no obnaruzhila u sebja na dveri reklamnyj prospekt - predlagali dostavku edy iz novogo restorana nepodaleku.Ja tolko prishla s raboty i ot stressa litso u menja slegka podergivalos, - takoe so mnoj byvalo -, i obychno v takom sostojanii nichego novogo mne ne khotelos, tem bolee chto menja zhdala ezhevechernjaja portsija Suspenzii.Menju bylo korotkoe, predlagalos zakazat ostryj sup, ostryj sendvich ili kombo, prichem vse bez mjasa. Vverkhu pugajusche ogromnym shriftom bylo napechatano nazvanie restorana "Sup i zakvaska na Klement-Strit". [...] Ja zakazala kombo".Lojs Kleri - programmist, zhivet v San-Frantsisko i zanimaetsja razrabotkoj robotov. Inogda po vecheram ona ustaet tak, chto sil khvataet tolko podnjat trubku i zakazat edu iz blizhajshego restorana mazgskoj (?) kukhni, gde pomimo kombo i sendvicha bez mjasa gotovjat neobychnuju zakvasku dlja khleba.Lojs esche ne znaet, chto neznakomyj, srodni volshebstvu, protsess prigotovlenija khleba zatjanet ee v mir khipsterov-gurmanov, vysokoj kukhni, sekretnykh fermerskikh rynkov i kulinarnykh eksperimentov, vytesniv vse ostalnoe na vtoroj plan.Sjuzhetnoe pogruzhenie v sekrety prigotovlenija khleba ili syra posle prochtenija "Zakvaski" 100%-no sdelaet vas zajadlym fudi. Avtor tochno znaet to, o chem pishet. Robin Sloun nazyvaet sebja media-izobretatelem, a na dosuge delaet olivkovoe maslo.

I denna roman utforskar Lois Clare, en framtida programmerare, innovativ teknik, utsökt mat och magi. Att beställa från en unik restaurang förändrar hennes liv. Med en magisk startgåva upptäcker Lois en passion för matlagning och avslöjar en värld av hemligheter och snabba förändringar - avslöjande lika mycket om matlagningsunder som Mr. Penumbra gjorde om boksällskapets hemligheter

It's like Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off - NPRLois Clary is a software engineer. She codes all day and collapses at night into her sofa, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the local takeaway from which she orders dinner every evening - that is, until the brothers are forced out of business. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their famous bread. She must keep it alive, feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but soon, not only is she eating her own homemade, but she's initiated into a fantastical and possibly fantastically sinister underground world: a secret market that aims to fuse home-cooked food with cutting-edge technology...

From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. 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. Then, disaster Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her--feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she's providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market--and a whole new world opens up.

Tselevaja auditorija: Chitatel, kotorogo zavorazhivajut starinnye knigi i tajny, a takzhe vse poklonniki romana "Kruglosutochnyj knizhnyj mistera Penumbry" Na chto pokhozhe: "Imja rozy" Umberto Eko, "Ten vetra" Karlos Ruis Safon, "Kod da Vinchi" Den Braun. O knige: "Ajaks Penumbra 1969" - prikvel romana Robina Slouna "Kruglosutochnyj knizhnyj mistera Penumbry", stavshego bestsellerom v desjatkakh stran mira. Tajnoe soobschestvo "Festina lente" ischet sekret bessmertija. Eto znanie iz tekh, chto khochetsja poluchit pri zhizni, a drugie dela mozhno otlozhit na potom. V avguste 1969 goda molodoj Ajaks Penumbra priezzhaet v San-Frantsisko v poiskakh edinstvennogo ekzempljara drevnej knigi, poterjannoj pochti sto let nazad. Kniga, esli ona ne sgorela pri pozhare i ne rassypalas v drevesnyj prakh, na protjazhenii neskolkikh vekov predskazyvaet sudby. Kniga ukazyvaet Penumbre nuzhnyj povorot, a za povorotom - kruglosutochnyj knizhnyj. Otzyvy SMI: "Tajny i unikalnyj stil Robina Slouna...

From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. 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. Then, disaster Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her--feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she's providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market--and a whole new world opens up.

Ob avtore: Robin Sloun - molodoj amerikanskij pisatel. Rabotaja v kompanii Twitter, on napisal svoj debjutnyj roman "Kruglosutochnyj knizhnyj mistera Penumbry", mgnovenno stavshij bestsellerom v desjatkakh stran mira. O knige: Knizhnyj magazin - idealnoe mesto, chtoby sprjatat kontsy v vodu. Na pylnykh dalnikh polkakh mister Penumbra khranit knigi, kotorykh, esli verit Guglu, ne suschestvuet. Verenitsa strannykh simvolov, tisnennye zolotom pereplety, redkie chitateli i nochnoj prodavets, kotoromu ekstsentrichnyj vladelets jasno daet ponjat: ne zadavaj voprosov, a glavnoe - ne chitaj. No pautina zagadok uzhe opletaet geroja. Para neostorozhnykh fraz - i vot uzhe tselyj batalon druzej - knizhniki i programmisty iz Gugl, znatoki antichnosti i fanaty "Zvezdnykh vojn" - pytajutsja razgadat shifr poluvekovoj davnosti. Tselevaja auditorija Chitatelju, kotorogo zavorazhivajut starye knigi, tainstvennye shifry i kody, no kotoryj ne mozhet zhit bez sovremennykh tekhnologij i gadzhetov, kotoryj derzhit ruku na pulse zhizni, gotov okunutsja v labirint zagadok i poshevelit mozgami. Otzyvy: "Odnikh chitatelej privlekaet zagadochnyj mir knig, drugikh - pogruzhenie v puchinu sovremennykh tekhnologij, tretikh - prikljuchenija, schekochuschie nervy, i neverojatno tainstvennaja atmosfera...Chitat etu knigu - stoprotsentnoe udovolstvie i dlja serdtsa, i dlja uma". The New York Times Book Review "Prikljuchenija buntovschikov, reshivshikh vzlomat kod bessmertija - borba s drevnim kultom, sekretnye shifry i tajnye dveri - po-nastojaschemu vzvolnujut vashego vnutrennego rebenka". The Economist

The utterly charming prequel to the New York Times-bestseller Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore. 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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 DEBUT CATEGORY - KITCHIES PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSA New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new.Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. And it doesn't take long for Clay to realize that the quiet, dusty book emporium is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few fanatically committed customers, but they never seem to actually buy anything, instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes perched on dangerously high shelves, all according to some elaborate arrangement with the eccentric proprietor. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he has plugged in his laptop, roped in his friends (and a cute girl who works for Google) and embarked on a high-tech analysis of the customers' behaviour. What they discover is an ancient secret that can only be solved by modern means, and a global-conspiracy guarded by Mr. Penumbra himself... who has mysteriously disappeared.

The New York Times Bestseller A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco ChronicleThe Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything--instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls. Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.