The Bug by Ellen Ullman · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Saturday June 14, 2003 @07:51AM from the evil-geniuses-for-a-better-tomorrow dept.

Never Rock Fila writes "On the front page of tomorrow's New York Times Book Review, a slightly breathless but overdue enthusiastic review of Ellen Ullman's new novel, The Bug. The review acknowledges that 'Ullman has already established herself as an indispensable voice out of the world of technology' -- if you haven't read her first book, a memoir, Close to the Machine, read that too -- and it's nice to see a mainstream publication like the Times, the gold standard of book reviews as I understand it, giving such prominent and positive attention to a novel by a former 'software engineer' that's all about getting inside the mind of a programmer, even concluding 'If more contemporary novels delivered news this relevant and wise they'd have to stop declaring the death of the novel.' The reviewer, one Benjamin Anastas, has the chops to develop a sustained comparison to Mary Shelley, to legitimately place the 1984 computer programmers at the center of the novel among 'all the best characters in fiction,' and to declare the book 'thrilling and intellectually fearless.'"

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Re:Solution to the NYT registration thing... by Loonius+Trugoats · 2003-06-14 08:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Thanks I'll be sure to check that link out as soon as I get home
Re:Ullman's Programming the Post-Human by Loonius+Trugoats · 2003-06-14 08:34 · Score: 0, Troll

I read that too! It was on google entertainment news a while back, although I can see why she writes books.
Re:Ullman's Programming the Post-Human by ElectricPoppy · 2003-06-14 11:14 · Score: 0, Troll

I went out with her in college...
I think YOU are confusing YOURSELF with someone who could GET A DATE.