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 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.

国际畅销书作者的非虚构类处女作 Sacred Games 关于写作和计算机编码之间惊人的重叠

维克拉姆·钱德拉几乎和当小说家一样长时间都是一名计算机程序员。在这本非凡的新书中，他探索了艺术世界和技术世界之间的联系，这是他的第一部非虚构类作品。程序员和作家一样，痴迷于优雅和风格，但这两个词对两者的意义是一样的吗？我们能把美归因于编写代码的技艺吗？
探索各种主题，如逻辑门和文学现代主义，科技极客的男子汉气概，硅谷无处不在的“印度黑手党”，以及11世纪克什米尔思想家阿比纳瓦古塔的著作， Geek Sublime 既是一部独特的编码史，也是一部关于作家艺术的迷人沉思。部分是文学散文，部分是技术故事，部分是回忆录，这是一本引人入胜的、原创的、令人兴奋的思想广泛的书。