Moonbound: A Novel

"An expansive adventure that blends fantasy and SF to address one of the most pressing issues of our time."

—Kirkus Reviews

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 remote village under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of eye-popping discoveries and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to rescue the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive artificial intelligence with a special perspective on all of human history—who becomes both Ariel’s greatest ally . . . and our narrator.

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

About the Author

Robin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley of California. He is the author of Sourdough and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.