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The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.
The rest of me is, I don’t know how else to put this, yanked, as if by some cosmic cartoon cane, offstage, into the other-dimensional wings of reality, where time is irrelevant and space sort of fizzles. He gave a talk at Google somewhere in there, became kind of a thing in these parts, beloved by literate techies who saw in him a writer who understood both the incredible happening-ness of tech culture and how to novelize it. I’ve just spent an entire evening with the tech world’s greatest living novelist, Robin Sloan, and my voice recorder failed me at the most important moment.
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