Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like… — Robin Sloan Art Copy Share Image
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read… — Robin Sloan Dreams Copy Share Image
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher -… — Robin Sloan Book 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
“She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several identical… — Robin Sloan Bam 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
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for… — Robin Sloan Attention Copy Share Image
When MUDs appeared, that was an entirely novel experience, and often an addictive one. Long before Twitter or Snapchat, MUDs inspired the… — Robin Sloan Experience Copy Share Image
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloan Bells 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
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
“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
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan Again 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
“Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?" "Sounds like a Japanese game show." Kat straightens her shoulders. "Okay, we're going to play.… — Robin Sloan Future Copy Share Image
“Is this a book club? How do they join? Do they ever pay? These are the things I ask myself when I… — Robin Sloan Book club Copy Share Image
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan Add Copy Share Image
“This job has three requirements, each very strict. Do not agree to them lightly. Clerks in this store have followed these rules… — Robin Sloan Books Copy Share Image
“Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it.… — Robin Sloan Big idea Copy Share Image
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge. — Robin Sloan About Copy Share Image
“The menu charmed me, and as a result, my night, and my life, bent off on a different track.” — Robin Sloan Life Copy Share Image
“My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.” — Robin Sloan Paper Copy Share Image
My parents live in northern Michigan, and every year, in the summer, we visit them for a few weeks. — Robin Sloan Live Copy Share Image
“Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?” — Robin Sloan Books 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 Chronicles 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
“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
“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 Normal person Copy Share Image
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks… — Robin Sloan Alone Copy Share Image
“There were murky glass vessels holding baby Xenomorphs (possibly they were pickles) and bright colorful boxes with labels in Arabic and Hebrew… — Robin Sloan Judaism Copy Share Image
If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in… — Robin Sloan Enjoyment Copy Share Image
“There had to be a scale somewhere—the scale of stars, the scale of far-off cosmic super-beings—upon which we ourselves, we humans with… — Robin Sloan Astronomy Copy Share Image
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Built 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 Audiobooks Copy Share Image
“Every day you learn something amazing," Kat says, "like there's a secret underground library in New York City" - she pauses and… — Robin Sloan Every day Copy Share Image
Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next… — Robin Sloan Darkness Copy Share Image
