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Robin Sloan Quote: “The house was large and deeply lived-in, all the shelves and surfaces stacked with books and boxes, framed pictures, old greeting cards set up like tent cities... Every single surface told a story. A long one. With digressions.”

51. “The house was large and deeply lived-in, all the shelves and surfaces stacked with books and boxes, framed pictures, old greeting cards set up like tent cities... Every single surface told a story. A long one. With digressions.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they’ll believe you.”

52. “People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they’ll believe you.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters.”

53. “The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “In your message, you told me about your family, how you don’t have any traditions. The first time I read that, it made me sad, but then I thought about it for a while and started to feel jealous. Lois, think about it! No one cares if your restaurant has tables. You can build robots, or bake bread, or do something else entirely. You’re unencumbered by culture. You’re... light!”

54. “In your message, you told me about your family, how you don’t have any traditions. The first time I read that, it made me sad, but then I thought about it for a while and started to feel jealous. Lois, think about it! No one cares if your restaurant has tables. You can build robots, or bake bread, or do something else entirely. You’re unencumbered by culture. You’re... light!”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who’s going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?”

55. “Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who’s going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Don’t forget your ruler on your first day of cult!”

56. “Don’t forget your ruler on your first day of cult!”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light and metal. Books used to be pretty high-tech, back in the day. Not anymore.”

57. “I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light and metal. Books used to be pretty high-tech, back in the day. Not anymore.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together.”

58. “I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could.”

59. “The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!”

60. “Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Southeastern Michigan is flat, almost concave; here was a world with a z-axis.”

61. “Southeastern Michigan is flat, almost concave; here was a world with a z-axis.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Corvina must have been so different then... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don’t get to be Corvina anymore. Now you’re Corvina 2.0 – a dubious upgrade.”

62. “Corvina must have been so different then... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don’t get to be Corvina anymore. Now you’re Corvina 2.0 – a dubious upgrade.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “I know I have strong opinions about everything – I can’t help it, I do – but this one’s the strongest. I waited too long to get out of that office. Much too long. I weep for those years.”

63. “I know I have strong opinions about everything – I can’t help it, I do – but this one’s the strongest. I waited too long to get out of that office. Much too long. I weep for those years.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.”

64. “Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.”

65. “Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “We were looking at the sequence, not the shape.”

66. “We were looking at the sequence, not the shape.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “It felt, also, like an empty spaceship, and, as a rule, you do not enter an empty spaceship without first knowing the fate of the crew.”

67. “It felt, also, like an empty spaceship, and, as a rule, you do not enter an empty spaceship without first knowing the fate of the crew.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Did I see faces? I did not see faces. The power outlet looked like a little dude, but power outlets always look like little dudes.”

68. “Did I see faces? I did not see faces. The power outlet looked like a little dude, but power outlets always look like little dudes.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Why do you love books so much?”

69. “Why do you love books so much?”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow real and deeply felt; those who can make you, within seconds of first contact, believe it.”

70. “Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow real and deeply felt; those who can make you, within seconds of first contact, believe it.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people – Scientology for scholarly seniors.”

71. “This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people – Scientology for scholarly seniors.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Now I’ve resigned myself to sitting at the front desk, but I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.”

72. “Now I’ve resigned myself to sitting at the front desk, but I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “IT’S A MESS when strange events smack into the windscreen of a resolutely rational mind.”

73. “IT’S A MESS when strange events smack into the windscreen of a resolutely rational mind.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “And even if I fail-this is always the archivist’s consolation-perhaps I will have laid a foundation for someone wiser.”

74. “And even if I fail-this is always the archivist’s consolation-perhaps I will have laid a foundation for someone wiser.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “I felt the disorientation of a generous offer that in no way lines up with anything you want to do: like a promotion to senior alligator wrestling, or an all-expenses paid trip to Gary, Indiana.”

75. “I felt the disorientation of a generous offer that in no way lines up with anything you want to do: like a promotion to senior alligator wrestling, or an all-expenses paid trip to Gary, Indiana.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith’s trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones – and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.”

76. “He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith’s trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones – and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “How do I know that? Does my brain have an app for that?”

77. “How do I know that? Does my brain have an app for that?”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she’s the little eccentric that could.”

78. “Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she’s the little eccentric that could.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “She was on her fifth espresso and seemed finally to have found her equilibrium.”

79. “She was on her fifth espresso and seemed finally to have found her equilibrium.”

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Robin Sloan Quote: “Is it an eggageration to say Clement Soup and Sourdough saved me? At night, instead of fitfully reviewing the day’s error while my stomach swam and churned, I... fell asleep. My course steadied. I had taken on ballast in the form of spicy broth and fragrant bread and, maybe, two new friends, or sort-of-friends, or something.”

80. “Is it an eggageration to say Clement Soup and Sourdough saved me? At night, instead of fitfully reviewing the day’s error while my stomach swam and churned, I... fell asleep. My course steadied. I had taken on ballast in the form of spicy broth and fragrant bread and, maybe, two new friends, or sort-of-friends, or something.”

— Robin Sloan

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