After finding and loving Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore I also became what Peter so pointedly describes, a card-carrying Robin Sloan fan. I dug into the prequel Ajax Penumbra. Stormed through Sourdough and loved the one-off experiments like My father the druid, my mother the tree, The Suitcase Clone and Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate.

Yesterday Sloan’s new novel arrived.

A colorful hardcover book rests on a wooden table next to a partially filled ceramic mug in a cozy indoor setting featuring a chair and green cushion.

Moonbound also comes with a great minisite to explore the extraordinary world further and read some of the background in Sloan’s work. Moonbound (or should I say M∞nbound?) plays in 13777, there are dragons on the moon, talking goats and a videogame. And I am only at the first 50 pages…