Matt K reviewed Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate by Robin Sloan (Annabel Scheme, #2)
The gone away detective returns
4 stars
It's so weird and wonderful
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This is a detective story about all the possible versions of a place. It features a bustling city built on a filled-in San Francisco Bay, a pop star tech genius named Quintessandra, and internet teeth.
This story was initially published as a daily serial in two Bay Area newspapers, the Mercury News and East Bay Times, in the summer of 2020.
It's so weird and wonderful
The Robin Sloan books I've read so far exist in a shared universe. This one does too, I think; it features a Lois who is extremely different from the Lois of Sourdough but there is no way the name is coincidental. So I'm assuming that the 2 Loises are from different parallel universes (Which works in the context of this novella).
I have, perhaps, an eerie connection to this author I've never met: he has a whole book about computer programmers, baking, and a protagonist named Lois, and now this novella features a character named Aloysius.