Robin Sloan

I just lis­tened to it today, and there­after found your site.

If you haven’t lis­tened to it yet, let me tell you it turned out great. :)

Me too, and I agree it was pretty darn good :)
Loved the scenes at Google in particular.

Let me tell you about your story: I have an 8 month old son who woke up last night for a 3 AM feed­ing. Now I have a habit of lis­ten­ing to pod­casts to help me get back to sleep, but your story was so richly engag­ing that I couldn’t help but lis­ten to the whole thing — which made me one tired mommy at 6 this morn­ing. But it was well worth it.

It’s won­der­ful that the way in which your story came to Stephen Eley echos the story’s theme.

@P Hayes: That is so ter­rific! Thanks for shar­ing; your com­ment made my day.

Great bor­ge­sian story! One of the best things I’ve heard on escape pod.

Amaz­ing story, I love geeky sci-​​fi /​ fan­tasy.
wouldn’t have heard of it if it weren’t for escape pod, I lis­ten to it on my phone.

Great story along with a great narration!!!!

I really love your story. It is the great­est one I’ve heard (via escape­pod) in a long time! And hon­estly, I was biased against it when it began (I wanted pure sci-​​fi), so it won me over and then some!

@Keith: Awe­some! Noth­ing bet­ter than beat­ing expectations.

Just lis­tened to Mr. Penum­bra as I walked around the lake at lunch. Great Story, Thank you.

Thanks for the great story. I was able to check it out for free on EscapePod.

I’m look­ing for­ward to read­ing more of your sto­ries in the future.

Thank you for writ­ing this won­der­ful story! I heard it on Escape Pod and it’s one of my favorites to date. I hope there are plans for a new story in this uni­verse soon.

Really enjoyed this one. What’s this I hear about a novel?

thanks also for the great story. would love to read some more of your work. one of the more refresh­ing sto­ries I have read lately. thanks for what you do.

Hello, every­one,

I’m a free­lance writer for suit​e101​.com and recently started a series of pod­cast reviews. After I pick a pod­cast, I select the three most recent episodes and use those as the sam­ple for my review. I chose Escape Pod for my first, and it included Robin’s story!

Greatly enjoyed the work — take a look at the review here:

http://​pod​casts​.suit​e101​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​.​c​f​m​/​p​o​d​c​a​s​t​_​r​e​v​i​e​w​_​e​s​c​a​p​e​_​p​o​d​_​s​c​i​e​n​c​e​_​f​i​c​t​ion

Thanks!