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Sloan makes his home in Berkeley, California. In addition to his writing and media work, Sloan and his partner, Kathryn Tomajan, lease three acres in Sunol, California, where they produce extra virgin olive oil. Currently, Sloan works as a "media inventor" out of the Murray Street Lab in South Berkeley. For 10 years, (2002-2012), he worked at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Current TV, and Twitter - in various positions, all of which explore the future of media. While still a student, he co-founded a literary magazine called Oats. Sloan was raised in Troy, Michigan, and earned a degree in economics from Michigan State University. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), and Sourdough (2017), as well as the novella Annabel Scheme (2009) and an assortment of short stories.

Robin Sloan is an American novelist and short story writer - the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, Mr.

Currently-lives in Berkeley, California.

Education-B.A., Michigan State University.

Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation, while taking on even more satisfying challenges, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer. Leavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms.

She must keep it alive, they tell her-feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr.