The pace and timing of each new discovery keeps you going and eagerly imbibing the sumptuous fare his books provide. 4 years seemed a long time to go without his particular brand of adventurous discovery into worlds I could never imagine on my own. Includes bonus material that provides an audiobook-only glimpse at the evolving relationship between Lois and Slurry, the company upon whose dystopian meal replacements she and her engineer friends all subsist.ĭelighted to find a new Robin Sloan book out. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation, while taking on even more satisfying challenges, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young author. Leavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan's Mr. But then an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market, and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she's providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. She must keep it alive, they tell her - feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread.

She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening.

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. In his much-anticipated new audiobook, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr.

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