Ajax Penumbra 1969

300 pages

English language

Published July 9, 2013 by Atlantic Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-78239-446-4
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4 stars (15 reviews)

2 editions

Review of 'Ajax Penumbra 1969' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

This was good and I enjoyed reading it, but I wish I'd more recently read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. I can tell I would have enjoyed this even more if I'd read the two back-to-back.

Review of 'Ajax Penumbra 1969' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

3.5 stars

In principle, recommended to anyone who loves books and likes reading about the love of books. In practice, probably more satisfying to people who've already read the companion novel (which was written first, but whose events follow the novella's chronologically); this is more of an origin story than a full-fledged, standalone story. All that said, I found it a very fun read, and at this length it only took about 90 minutes to whip through, and I'm eager to read he companion novel. Do with that what you will.

Ajax Penumbra is a reserved, unassuming, WYSIWYG kind of guy, saddled with a very weighty name that says a lot more about his parents than it does about him--which he knows, and which Robin Sloane is sure to explain to readers in detail. But like a lot of reserved, unassuming, WYSIWYG people, he loves books, and that love of …

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