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Publisher's summary
Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.
In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science fiction, fantasy, good old-fashioned literary storytelling, and unrivaled enthusiasm for what’s next.
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 small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history—and becomes both Ariel’s greatest ally and the narrator of our story.
Moonbound is an adventure into the richest depths of Story itself. It is a deeply satisfying epic of ancient scale, blasted through the imaginative prism one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Interview: Robin Sloan goes high science fantasy in his wildly imaginative "Moonbound"
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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- Adam
- 06-25-24
A fantasy adventure with a sci-fi twist!
I enjoyed listening to this book. I would recommend it to fans of the sci-fi and fantasy genre.
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- John Bridges
- 06-21-24
A weird and wonderful world
Robin Sloan’s latest addition to his “Penumbraverse” is Moonbound (absolutely no knowledge of the previous books required!). Moonbound is a multi-genre fusion of myth, sci-fi, fantasy and fable, beautifully decanted into an adventurous and engaging tale. Many of my favorites can be discerned in its DNA: Arthurian myth, Narnia, the Wizard of Oz, Studio Ghibli and a big dose of Adventure Time among others, and yet its a novel that is wholly its own, with a weird and wonderful world to explore as we follow the protagonist Ariel on his quest. A parade of curious and engaging characters enlivens the journey, and Sloan’s prose is vivid and well crafted, and moves the story along without snags, using humor to great effect (as with the previous Penumbraverse novels). Sci-fi so far into the future that it bends into fantasy is a rich vein to mine, and I’m left hungry for much more of this world, with its sentient swords, fungal AI, talking animals and hyper-dimensional beings. I can see many more tales waiting around the corners and much more of this world to be mapped, and I hope Sloan has the opportunity to continue doing just that. Gabra Zackman was the perfect voice for the Chronicler, narrating the story with range and warmth.
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- Steve Krouse
- 06-24-24
A classic for the age of LLMs
It's so delightful to have a fiction writer who is a real technologist, and in this case even a programmer, who actually understands the technology they're extrapolating from. I think this book has a real chance to stand the test of time of what our society that's just made contact with LLMs thinks they may turn into, like 1984 or Brave New World where classics of what powerful new government and technologies may turn into.
But I forget myself, this book first and foremost reads like an eerie yet quaint fairy tale. It's almost tropey in it's epic fantasy bits, but of course that's all part of joke. It's a fun and quick read, with deep, relevant themes.
I also really enjoyed the narrator. She did an excellent job. I think this book more than most makes sense as an audiobook given the structure of the narrator in the story.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-15-24
An intriguing mix of fantasy and science fiction
This is a well-told well-worn story with numerous twists and turns and surprises. If I must describe it's genre, I'd say it's science fiction that has gone around the world and butted up against fantasy from the other side.
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- Daniel Klein
- 06-19-24
This book is my new obsession
To keep it succinct, my review of this should read "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
This would be accurate, but not useful. The book is the opposite: useful but not accurate. Which is why I love it.
This is post climate emergency fiction married to Arthurian metatext dancing with enormous space opera barely glimpsed in the tear of the veil of dust around earth, making saucy eyes at eldritch horrors of our own design, obeying our own ineluctable rules of narrative. Itt is a carneval of the weird (and the wyrd), laugh out loud funny in the least explainable manner, it ping pong a between weighty myth-making language and snarky almost post modernism flavored inappropriate and yet so appropriate Twitterisms. It does so rarely, which makes it slap more.
I love this. I will read it again. It will live in my brain forever, like a friendly symbiotic yeast starter in a mech suit.
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- dougfort
- 06-16-24
This is the real stuff
Robin Sloan has reached a new level. The voice actor is great, clearly representing multiple characters.
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- Cranky 3950
- 06-14-24
Entertaining fantasy
This tale takes place in a post-apocalypse world whose citizens are perfectly adapted to their reality. Just when you think the story is predictable, it takes another twist and you decide to give it a little more time. That is what I did, and loved it to the end. The narrator is amazing with such a variety of voices it is easy to follow the characters. Highly recommend.
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- Kwoeltje
- 06-24-24
Outstanding
Different in style from previous Sloan novels yet still very much the same. Outstanding story telling, huge imagination, and lots of subtle questions about the nature of our world.
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- unco
- 06-20-24
Tenuous and hard to understand.
The further I progressed in this book the more confused I was. Initially I thought it was a retelling of The Sword in the Stone or some aspect of The Canterbury Tales. I was happy with that and then it changed and I didn't know if I was part of a VR game. My impression was that the idea was hatched in a fever dream. I have read all of the author's books and this is the first one I have not raved about. I did not enjoy the story but I appreciate it.
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