Moffat's prose is fine: clear and steady, with just enough sweeping statements about destiny and dragons to keep things well inflated. The characters are appealing archetypes: Fernwen the scholarly dwarf is the everynerd, doing his best to live through the adventure. Telemach Half-Blood is the hero you wish you could be. He always has a plan, always has a solution, always has secret allies that he can call upon - pirates and sorcerers whose allegiance he earn with long-ago sacrifices.

Robin Sloan


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Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.

Robin Sloan


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And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can't search for anything. You can't check your email. You can't watch any videos. You can't get directions. For just three seconds, nothing works, because every single one of Google's computers around the world is dedicated to this task.

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To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks."
But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your -

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But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.

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I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.

Robin Sloan

Stichwörter: books robots immortality



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Stuff that used to be hard just isn't hard anymore!

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Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death and a kebab.

Robin Sloan


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Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.

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