Robin Sloan

I started read­ing Annabel Scheme today at lunch and this is my first delve into tran­shu­man­ism. Ok, if you count the Matrix movies, and Ghost in the Shell, not exactly my first. It is not as weird or hard to grasp the con­cept of that I thought it was going to be. I can’t WAIT to get back to the story. I think it’s going to be devoured tonight! Thank you and please write more!

My 4-​​pack came in the mail this evening. I opened the USPS enve­lope, and saw the non­de­script black enve­lope. The white label on the front of that enve­lope kicked off an a dive into a world so vivid and entranc­ing that I only came up for air after read­ing my name in the Acknowledgements. 

Robin, I haven’t been so engrossed and excited by a book for years. Con­grat­u­la­tions on a fan­tas­tic (in more ways than one) world and a gallery of char­ac­ters I am sim­ply dying to read more about. 

Bravo

AMD

Melody: I love your char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of it as “tran­shu­man­ism” (I assume you mean the nar­ra­tor) and also the fact that you found it accessible!

Adam: Oh man, there’s noth­ing like read­ing praise that is, itself, well-​​written. Thanks — I’m really glad you enjoyed it.

Robin, I got the book Mon­day and have been read­ing it in bits and pieces, savor­ing it, over the many strange SFMuni rides that make up the weekly com­mute, and one word. FANTASTIC. 

Now, when is the next book coming :)

R said my books won’t arrive for ages (alas) so i devoured the dig­i­tal ver­sion first. Can­not wait for phys­i­cal copies to arrive so I can curl up with them. (Again.) /​awaits next installment

I feel really stu­pid. I hadn’t noticed Scheme’s face encoded on the cover. Helps to step back and away from the book for a few.

Shaun: “Encoded” is the right word… very sub­tle, ghostly, almost hid­den. And yeah, most vis­i­ble under strong light, at a dis­tance. Also, you have to look in the mir­ror and say “Fog City” three times…

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[…] Annabel Scheme is a short novella by Robin Sloan that he wrote and pub­lished through through the sup­port of a Kick­starter project. It’s a story about a Sher­lock Holmes for the 21st cen tury. Holmes is a woman, Wat son is an AI, all the good cases are on the inter net, and some thing very strange has hap­pened to San Francisco… […]

I’ve only just started the story..so far I’m intrigued.

I would like to say the extra effort in the pack­ag­ing made get­ting the book more engag­ing and fun. Kudos!

When I’m done, I’ll cat­a­log it for the library. Great job!

How about an epub version?

[Great idea! Won’t be able to do it super-​​soon, b/​c it takes a bit of work to mark some­thing up the right way, so it looks ter­rific as an epub… but it’s on the roadmap. And of course, any­one else is wel­come to take a crack at it, too, if they’re feel­ing brave. —Robin]

Excel­lent novella Robin. You’ve cre­ated a won­der­ful envi­ron­ment and filled it with even more intrigu­ing char­ac­ters. Thank you for shar­ing your cre­ativ­ity. On a side note, I loved the graphic ele­ments through­out the text.

It was a great book. A lit­tle con­fus­ing at the end, but still great. Im also a TCS stu­dent, we all read it and agreed it was great!

Trevor: That’s so cool! I’m glad you guys read & enjoyed it. I’d love to hear more about what you liked and didn’t like… and/​or what parts didn’t make sense to you. I can use that feed­back to make an improved Annabel Scheme 2.0 some­time in the future.

Great sto­ries!!

Ref­er­ence to Amitabh for tooth­paste and Tata hack­back.. sim­ply awe­some. Your writ­ing is deep and takes imag­i­na­tion on wild ride.. like it a lot!