Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra, Vikram
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra, Vikram

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between...
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Author: Vikram Chandra
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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra, Vikram

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

$37.76
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra, Vikram

Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

$37.76
Author: Vikram Chandra
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding

Vikram 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.

Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/02/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781555976859


Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/26/2014
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2014
New York Times Book Review 08/24/2014 pg. 17
Booklist 09/01/2014 pg. 28
People Weekly 08/31/2014 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 10/13/2014 pg. 116
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 28

About the Author

Vikram Chandra is the author of three highly acclaimed works of fiction, most recently "Sacred Games," which won the 2006 Hutch Crossword Award. Chandra lives in Oakland, California and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.


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