Robin Sloan (original) (raw)

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a writer, printer, & manufacturer

I’m the author of Moonbound, Sourdough, and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, pub­lished by MCD×FSG in the United States, Tokyo Sogensha in Japan, and many others around the world. I am also …

• co-owner of Fat Gold and co-author of this guide to extra virgin olive oil
• proprietor of Penumbra Print Shop, a stationery company
• creator of this app, this e-book template, etc.

My newsletter goes out every 29 ½ days. It ranges widely, across books and media and modern life, and I always try to make it feel like a note from a friend:

My blog is about media and technology, cre­ative computing, AI aesthetics, & more. Basically, it’s devoted to the topics that are too nerdy for my newsletter.

I’ve pub­lished a lot of mate­rial across a few dif­ferent internet eras. Here’s a direc­tory of what’s avail­able on this web­site and elsewhere.

Basics

• About me
• Contact info
• Instagram account
• RSS feed

Newsletter archives

• Main newsletter
• Lab newsletter

Novels

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
• Sourdough
• Moonbound ★

Novellas

• Annabel Scheme
• Ajax Penumbra 1969 ★
• Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate
• The Suitcase Clone

Special projects

• Fish, an app
• The Greatest Remaining Hits, a sci-fi concept album ★
• Shadow Planet, a sci-fi non-concept album
• platforms.fyi, a rhetorical exhibit
• The amulet, a new kind of poem
• The Fat Gold Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Short stories

• The Writer and the Witch ★
• The Wrong Plane
• Last Beautiful
• The Truth About the East Wind
• The Counselor Terraform
• Proposal for a Book to Be Adapted Into a Movie Starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson
• Julie Rubicon Facebook
• The Sleep Consultant
• My Father the Druid, My Mother the Tree
• The Conspiracy Museum (The Atlantic)
• Elyse Flayme and the Final Flood MIT Technology Review
• Harriet Amber in the Conan Arcade Commercial Type
• Author’s Note Google
• In the Stacks Brand New Box

Notable essays

• An app can be a home-cooked meal
• Reckoning with Detective Comics
• Notes on Web3
• Return to Nib’s Knoll Aeon ★
• I Played Fortnite and Figured Out the Universe The Atlantic
• Dancing the flip-flop
• The Wiggle of Least Resistance The New York Times

The waybacklist

• A collection of notes, blog posts, etc.

This web­site was most recently updated on May 11, 2026.

If you’re here because you are curious about my writing and/or thinking, I encourage you to start with my novels. They’re avail­able wher­ever books can be pur­chased or borrowed. The audio­book edi­tions are great, too.

Thanks for stop­ping by!