I'm looking for recommendations for books set in the tech industry. I'm interested in any genre (except, like, kids books, but why would you have middle grade fiction or a picture book set in the tech industry) and am open to wide definitions of tech. Like, a book about an uber driver counts, a book about a Silicon Valley venture capitalist counts, a book about a programmer at a mid-sized firm in Ohio counts.
You might look at “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, a less famous book by Ted Chiang. I read the unpublished manuscript long ago as it still floats around the web (unironically). It’s a very poignant story, and very interesting in that he published it in 2010 as the second internet boom started. I’d be curious to know what he saw coming at that time, what’s still resonates.
@jared@bookstodon I love Lifecycle of Software Objects. Ted Chiang is one of my favorite living writers - and the short story writer I most look up to/want to write like.
@shauna@bookstodon Do you read mysteries? I liked Donna Andrews' Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon and Margaret Dumas' How to Succeed in Murder when I read them (it's been a while).
@trif@bookstodon I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow last year (and last year and last year)
it was very good, and gave me a new appreciation for games (although my favorite game-related novel I read last year, and surprisingly I read 3, was Leonard Richardson's Constellation Games (full disclosure: Leonard is a friend))
@pwramsey@bookstodon Thank you so much! I actually meant any genre of fiction book - I've edited the post to say so. I will definitely check out Microserfs! And Close to the Machine, as a memoir, might be near enough to fiction to count.
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