Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

 

After recently listening to Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, I decided to listen to the unabridged audio version of Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan and narrated by Ari Fliakos.

Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan is the prequel to Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and is a novella. This is a fast read! I enjoyed reading about Ajax Penumbra's life prior to his life in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. And once again, Ari Fliakos does a great job narrating this novella. 

If you loved reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, I think you'll enjoy reading Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan too.

Below is the publisher's summary for Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan I discovered through Chirp's website:

From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra’s first trip to San Francisco—and of how he got entangled with the city’s most unusual always-open enterprise…It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and an unprecedented subway tunnel is being built under the bay. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly giving way to a brand-new industry built on silicon.But young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book—the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra’s university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially …

I am giving Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan 5 stars out of 5 stars.

Until my next post, happy reading!!!