Early on Robin Sloan shows us that he’s a well-versed in fantasy and science fiction. He overlays tropes and archetypes while telling us why it’s happening all in the craft of a creative story. There is no hiding the Arthurian archetype. Sloan wants us to see it before he tips his hand. That archetype makes what follows all the more interesting with multidimensional beings, humanity hidden away and evolved, and a world that inverts the old with a spider now the prey of flies.

I don’t want to give too much away, so I’ll only say that I enjoyed Moonbound. It was fun and novel. It felt like the early days of reading fantasy and science fiction when I was a kid and a book was so new and exciting.