In reality there is no restaurant, just a to-go service run from the brothers’ small kitchen. “That bread was life.” She starts ordering from Clement Street Soup and Sourdough every night and learns the names of restaurant owners Beoreg and Chaiman. “That bread was the secret of the whole operation,” she says. The spicy soup and crusty sourdough bread soon clear up her stomach problems. One day she comes home from work to find a take-out flier for a new soup restaurant stuck to her apartment door. It turns out that programming robots to replace humans requires a lot of work and that’s all she does, leaving no time for herself or friends. She writes code to control robotic arms at tech startup General Dexterity and, like her male colleagues, puts in long hours.Īlso like her co-workers, she has replaced many of her meals with a nutritional gel called Slurry that’s easy to consume while working but leaves her with a gnawing pain in her stomach. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, is a female nerd working as a programmer in San Francisco. Lois Clary, the protagonist in Robin Sloan’s second book after the bestselling debut Mr.
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