But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology.

When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. She must keep it alive, they tell her-feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening.

But who are these people, exactly? Leavened by the same infectious intelligence that made R.Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. Bu t then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area mar kets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market, and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, s he's providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colon y of microorganisms. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to ba ke their bread. She codes all day and collapse s at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neigh borhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening.

Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco rob otics company with world-changing ambitions. *One of Amazon's 20 Best Books of 2017* Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Southern Living In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food w hat he did for the world of books in Mr. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition.

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