Moonbound

A Novel

De: Robin Sloan

Narrado por: Gabra Zackman

Duración: 10 h y 40 m

Resumen del Editor

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.

In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science fiction, fantasy, good old-fashioned literary storytelling, and unrivaled enthusiasm for what’s next.

It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history—and becomes both Ariel’s greatest ally and the narrator of our story.

Moonbound is an adventure into the richest depths of Story itself. It is a deeply satisfying epic of ancient scale, blasted through the imaginative prism one of our most forward-thinking writers. And this is only the beginning.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

©2024 Robin Sloan (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Great world building but ...

Beneath some very elaborate and creative world building, this is your basic young wizard coming of age story. And there's no clear denomment. This reads more like the first half of a book rather than the first book in a series.

Wow! Wow! Wow!

My mind is stretched, my heart sings, my hope restored, my soul yearns to know - What Happens Next? Thank you Robin, amazing!

A weird and wonderful world

Robin Sloan’s latest addition to his “Penumbraverse” is Moonbound (absolutely no knowledge of the previous books required!). Moonbound is a multi-genre fusion of myth, sci-fi, fantasy and fable, beautifully decanted into an adventurous and engaging tale. Many of my favorites can be discerned in its DNA: Arthurian myth, Narnia, the Wizard of Oz, Studio Ghibli and a big dose of Adventure Time among others, and yet its a novel that is wholly its own, with a weird and wonderful world to explore as we follow the protagonist Ariel on his quest. A parade of curious and engaging characters enlivens the journey, and Sloan’s prose is vivid and well crafted, and moves the story along without snags, using humor to great effect (as with the previous Penumbraverse novels). Sci-fi so far into the future that it bends into fantasy is a rich vein to mine, and I’m left hungry for much more of this world, with its sentient swords, fungal AI, talking animals and hyper-dimensional beings. I can see many more tales waiting around the corners and much more of this world to be mapped, and I hope Sloan has the opportunity to continue doing just that. Gabra Zackman was the perfect voice for the Chronicler, narrating the story with range and warmth.

Now one of my favorite books

It's been a while since I've had the feeling of "I hope this never ends" while coming towards the end of the book. Thankfully, it ended with the great human question: what comes next. And so I have an itch of a hope that we shall one day return and likely find out more about the storm machines.

I love books that somehow believably intermingle all the genres, science fiction and fantasy, comedy and mystery, adventure and even a hint of romance.

I love love love this book and hope to meet the author some day... probably in his beloved SF.

Story with a capital ‘S’

Moonbound has creative storytelling and language! This book books so hard, you’re gonna love it

Great Story!

This book was an excellent experience in both storytelling and performance! I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in science fiction and classic literature retellings.

A fully engrossing story of the future

From the beginning the author pulls on well known tropes and storylines and gives them a new depth and dimension that is engrossing. I read the whole thing in 2 days because I couldn’t put it down. The narrator is very gifted at creating the right pace and tone to suck you in. Well worth your time and attention.

A fantasy adventure with a sci-fi twist!

I enjoyed listening to this book. I would recommend it to fans of the sci-fi and fantasy genre.

A classic for the age of LLMs

It's so delightful to have a fiction writer who is a real technologist, and in this case even a programmer, who actually understands the technology they're extrapolating from. I think this book has a real chance to stand the test of time of what our society that's just made contact with LLMs thinks they may turn into, like 1984 or Brave New World where classics of what powerful new government and technologies may turn into.

But I forget myself, this book first and foremost reads like an eerie yet quaint fairy tale. It's almost tropey in it's epic fantasy bits, but of course that's all part of joke. It's a fun and quick read, with deep, relevant themes.

I also really enjoyed the narrator. She did an excellent job. I think this book more than most makes sense as an audiobook given the structure of the narrator in the story.

An intriguing mix of fantasy and science fiction

This is a well-told well-worn story with numerous twists and turns and surprises. If I must describe it's genre, I'd say it's science fiction that has gone around the world and butted up against fantasy from the other side.