A round -the -clock book of Mr. Penumbra. Ajax Penumbra 1969. Slown R.

Secret societies and the search for immortality, ancient books, ancient printing houses, underground reading rooms, dusty warehouses of lost artifacts and shiny Gulag data storage, dental ciphers, data visualization, real quest, real friendship, promising love and, oddly enough , dragons. All this fell on the web designer of Clay Jennon, because he, having lost his job and aimlessly wandering along San Francisco, inadvertently wrapped himself in a round-the-clock (and, by the way, vertical) bookstore. And immediately he got there a seller who does not trade in anything - he only gives out obviously obsessed people to the mysterious volumes of unreadable Abracadabra in exchange for other non -readable volumes. In the middle of the night.

Of course, Clay will try to solve what is happening with Mr. Penumbra in the store. Of course, it turns out that there is a centuries -old secret, an old unsolved cipher. And this cipher, together with the Clay, will hack cuders and librarians, archaeologists and designers, hackers and museum keepers, creators of special effects and climbing. The “24 -hour book of Mr. Penumbrah” visited the lists of The New York Times and National Public Radio, immediately after the publication was recognized as a book of the year according to Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and NPR, and later published in thirty countries.

This book is the bow of Nilu Stevenson, William Gibson, Haruki Murakami, Dan Brown and the Early Umberto Eco, but mainly the futurological theories of Robin Slown himself, who easily reconciles adherents of the tube world of paper books with the inhabitants of the inexhaustible digital The universe, because it simply does not see contradictions between them. The world is analog and the digital world is amazing, kind and full of mysteries. We were born in order to solve them - if possible, along with everyone we love. The novel "24 -hour Book Mr. Penumbra" and its background, the story "Ajax Penumbra 1969", are published in a new translation and for the first time under one cover.