Mr. Penumbra's ... A Review
I've been stalking watching Robin Sloan for a while now. He apparently lives in San Francisco when he's not on the Internets. Robin wrote and posted online a short story called Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, back in 2009. I read it shortly thereafter, and was greatly pleased by the characters, the settings, and the plotting. All-in-all, one of the tightest, shiniest short stories I've read in a long, long time. So, when Robin headed down the Kickstarter path with his first dead trees work, the novella entitled Annabel Scheme, I jumped on the bandwagon, and supported his effort with real…
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