Simon Willison’s Weblog

Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store. Enormously entertaining short story about data visualisation and creepy San Francisco bookshops by Robin Sloan.

Posted 12th June 2009 at 6:07 pm

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