Alibi Bookshop Presents: ROBIN SLOAN Saturday, July 20th 4:30 pm

Name: Alibi Bookshop Presents: ROBIN SLOAN Saturday, July 20th 4:30 pm
Start: 2024-07-20T16:30:00-07:00
Location: Alibi Bookshop - Vallejo, CA

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Sat Jul 20 2024 at 04:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Alibi Bookshop - Vallejo, CA | Vallejo, CA

We're thrilled to announce that we are welcoming a very special guest to the shop for a very special event on Saturday, July 20th at 4:30 pm: New York Times bestselling author, ROBIN SLOAN, author of "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" and "Sourdough."
We’re so delighted to celebrate his latest novel, “Moonbound,” which Kirkus calls “Ingenious ... replete with thorny quests and
arduous journeys in the manner of classics like 'A Wrinkle in Time' and 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.'” WOW!!!
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."
Doesn't that sound fantastic? And I must admit, "Mr. Penumbra's" is a book that means a lot to me, so it's personally exciting to get to host him, and especially to welcome a NYT bestselling author to downtown Vallejo! How fun is that?!
See you there!