I think, personally – I don’t know if other readers would agree – but reading ‘Penumbra,’ I detect an Internet writer or a writer who came up on the Internet. Robin Sloan Read Quote
If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage. Robin Sloan Read Quote
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track. Robin Sloan Read Quote
I liked the sort of YA classics. I loved ‘The Chronicles of Narnia.’ I loved ‘The Chronicles of Prydain’ by Lloyd Alexander, who is amazing. Basically, ‘Chronicles of’ – I was in. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Parable of the Sower’ is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I’m not sure I would care much about reading or writing today. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art. Robin Sloan Read Quote
