Download Ajax Penumbra 1969 AudioBook Free
From Robin Sloan, writer of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first visit to San Francisco - and of how he acquired entangled with the city's most abnormal always-open enterprise.... It is August 1969. THE SUMMERTIME of Love is a fading storage. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of your skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Signals bookstore and an unprecedented subway tunnel has been built under the bay. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly providing way to a brand-new industry built on silicon. But young Ajax Penumbra hasn't arrived in San Francisco looking free of charge love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a booklet: the sole surviving backup of the Techne Tycheon, a strange volume that has brought and lost great lot of money for anyone who may have owned it. The very last record of the booklet locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's school has dispatched him west to acquire it for his or her library. After a few weeks of thorough hunting, Penumbra feels no nearer to his goal than when he started. But overdue one evening, after another day of dispiriting inactive ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him broaden exponentially....
