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Learn moreVikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?
Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.
Vikram Chandra is the award-winning and bestselling author of numerous works, including Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Sacred Games. He has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the David Higham Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction, and a Salon Book Award, as well as being short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. He cowrote Mission Kashmir, an Indian feature film starring Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, and Jackie Shroff, that was released internationally in 2000. He currently divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, California, where he teaches creative writing at the University of California. Vikram lives with his wife Melanie Abrams, who is also a novelist.
Neil Shah is an Audie Award-nominated narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner who has recorded over one hundred audiobooks. A classically trained actor with an MFA from the Old Globe/University of San Diego program, Neil has appeared off-Broadway and on regional stages, as well as in film and television.