The Bug: A Novel
Ellen Ullman · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2012
With a New Introduction by Mary Gaitskill A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Ellen Ullman is a rarity, a computer programmer with a poets feeling for language (Laura Miller, Salon). The Bug breaks new ground in literary fiction, offering us a deep look into internal lives of people in technical world. Set in a start-up company in 1984, this highly acclaimed first novel explores what happens when a baffling software flawa bug so teasing it is named the Jesterthreatens survival of humans beings who created it.