Robin Sloan
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At last, the story that definitively bridges the world of Sourdough to that of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. It's all one Penumbraverse.
James Bascule is adrift. College beckons-but not quite strongly enough to actually get him to campus. A trip to Europe showed him a world bigger than his Northern California upbringing-and yet, one broken heart later, Northern California is where he's returned. Back to his old bedroom, paying his bemused parents...
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From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco-and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise...
It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and...