With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty first century, evoking both the fairy tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel of ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility thats rare to the world of literary fictionmostly set in a San Francisco bookstore.