Cyril Recommends Books at 9:50 AM MT, 11/26

Tracy Kidder is first rate, and his "The Soul of a New Machine" is one of the best

Somewhat similar computer books follow:

Computer Pioneers - Lee
Counterfeiters, The, reprint edition with epilogue 1985 – Kenner
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Hiltzik
Eudaemonic Pie, The - Bass
Fire in the Valley, rev. ed. -- Freiberger and Swaine
Grammatical Man – Campbell
Hackers, 2d ed. – Levy
Little Kingdom, The - Moritz
Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer -- Wilkes
Perspectives on the Computer Revolution, 2d ed. – Pylyshyn (the first edition may be better)
Portraits in Silicon -- Slater
Privacy and Freedom – Westin
Programmers and Managers – Kraft
Programmers at Work – Lammers
Second Self, The – Turkle (20th anniversary edition)
Story of Magic, The – Rowlett
Silicon Dreams -- Lucky
Silicon Valley Fever -- Rogers and Larsen
System and Structure, 2nd ed. – Wilden (1st edition was better)
Systemantics, 2d ed. – Gall (1st edition was better)
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About -- Knuth
Three Degrees Above Zero -- Bernstein
Two Cybernetic Frontiers – Brand
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet - Hafner
Who Got Einstein's Office – Regis
Wilderness of Mirrors – Grant
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Pirsig

- a good scifi anthology is Amazon.com: Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories ...

- a good scifi novel is Shockwave Rider, The - Brunner