Ajax Penumbra 1969 Quotes

“The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends,” he says, “and here, we are rich indeed.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Midway through, a fuzzy-chinned young man approaches the desk with a battered copy of Dune and a motley handful of coins. Mo waves him away. “Oh, just take it, Felix. Spend the money on a haircut.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“This is not an ordinary bookstore.”
“Indeed. It seems more akin to a youth hostel –”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Well, you know our saying: It's not over until you hold the book's ashes in your hands, weeping at the years you've lost.
I did not know we had that saying, sir.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick The Secret Meaning of Things, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fantastic Four #89, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth City of the Chasch, Jack Vance Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Sometimes, you’re stuck with a system too complicated to model completely.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“Books of silver; books of bone; and yet the strangest thing you see in all your years at Galvanic is a boy in a ski-mask, sitting in a basement, using a computer.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969