“Computer programmers are remaking the world. Here is ground truth about that world-making and brilliant critique of it. The reader vibrates between delight and alarm on every page.” – Stewart Brand

“This memoir of life in the electronic world is reckoning, a warning, a seduction. It is also very funny.” – Rebecca Brown

“This book is a masterpiece, an exquisitely melancholy cry from a body disappearing into the machine. It is a wrenching swan-song for human beings. I have never read anything like it because nothing like it could have been written before. Here is the perfect way to say goodbye to the millennium.” – Andrei Codrescu

“There are no crazed hackers here; no zen-master software moguls; no media stereotypes; just a wonderfully written book about Ullman’s days and nights at the heart of the new machine. I recommend it with unfettered enthusiasm.” – Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle

“Her talent enables readers to explore intimately, and without forced profundity, one of the biggest questions of our time: What it is about numerical, seemingly inhuman world of computing that holds such power, wholly human allure.” – Brad Wieners, editor, Wired Books

Ellen Ullman has worked as a software engineer and consultant since 1978, Her writing has been published in Resisting the Virtual Life, Wired Woman, and in Harper’s Magazine. She is a commenter on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”