Moonbound

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. PenumbraΓÇÖs 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive itmixing science fictionfantasygood old-fashioned literary storytellingand unrivaled enthusiasm for whatΓÇÖs next. It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happenedand yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizardΓÇÖs rule. Like many adventurers before himAriel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemiesa mission to save the worlda girl. Hereas they saybe dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilizationa sentientrecord-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human historyΓÇöand becomes both ArielΓÇÖs 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 scaleblasted through the imaginative prism one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.