“I told them both I didn’t have time for this bullshit, and if anybody wanted to ask a lady out, he could… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
It's not like 'Print versus Digital - only one will survive.' We live in a hybrid world now, and I think the… — Robin Sloan Future Copy Share Image
Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“It felt, also, like an empty spaceship, and, as a rule, you do not enter an empty spaceship without first knowing the… — Robin Sloan Empty space Copy Share Image
“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and worked on with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Death Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I spent a huge amount of time on the Internet, but not the Internet we know today. It… — Robin Sloan Internet Copy Share Image
“We take the subway.Grumble's next message came through after breakfast, and it said: theres a grumblegear3k waiting for you at 11 jay… — Robin Sloan Grumble Copy Share Image
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and… — Robin Sloan Food Copy Share Image
“Do people even look at one another?" "Not really. Everything that matters is on your screen. There's an agenda that rearranges itself.… — Robin Sloan Athens Copy Share Image
If you come from the Internet, as I do - I think of it as sort of my native country - there's… — Robin Sloan Attention Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
I think, personally - I don't know if other readers would agree - but reading 'Penumbra,' I detect an Internet writer or… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop,… — Robin Sloan Great warrior Copy Share Image
When I'm using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me... something interesting, odds are I'll forget… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks." But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your -” — Robin Sloan Truth Copy Share Image
“...this is exactly the kind of store that makes you want to buy a book about a teenage wizard. This is the… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.” — Robin Sloan Friday morning Copy Share Image
I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected — Robin Sloan Dislocation Copy Share Image
“I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.” — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute… — Robin Sloan Attention Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Best friend Copy Share Image
I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in! — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted? — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“It is very quiet. I set my chin into my palm and count my friends and wonder what else is hiding in… — Robin Sloan Friendship Copy Share Image
“I know I have strong opinions about everything - I can’t help it, I do - but this one’s the strongest. I… — Robin Sloan Inspirational Copy Share Image
Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in… — Robin Sloan Dragon Copy Share Image
“History hinges on such small things. A difference of thirty degrees, and this story would end here.” — Robin Sloan History Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Kat is talking to someone else now, a slender brown-skinned boy who's joined the line just behind her. He's dressed like a… — Robin Sloan Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them… — Robin Sloan Book Copy Share Image
“I'm making progress of my own: Kat invites me to a house party. Unfortunately, I can't go. I can never go to… — Robin Sloan House party Copy Share Image
My parents live in northern Michigan, and every year, in the summer, we visit them for a few weeks. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the… — Robin Sloan Culture Copy Share Image
