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Geek Sublime Lib/E: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

Geek Sublime Lib/E: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty


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About the Book

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.

About the Author :
Vikram Chandra is the award-winning and bestselling author of numerous works, including Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Sacred Games. He has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the David Higham Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction, and a Salon Book Award, as well as being short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. He cowrote Mission Kashmir, an Indian feature film starring Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, and Jackie Shroff, that was released internationally in 2000. He currently divides his time between Mumbai and Berkeley, California, where he teaches creative writing at the University of California. Vikram lives with his wife Melanie Abrams, who is also a novelist. Neil Shah is an Audie Award-nominated narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner who has recorded over one hundred audiobooks. A classically trained actor with an MFA from the Old Globe/University of San Diego program, Neil has appeared off-Broadway and on regional stages, as well as in film and television.

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"An unexpected tour de force...Its ambition: to look deeply, and with great subtlety, into the connections and tensions between the worlds--the cultures--of technology and art. The book becomes an exquisite meditation on aesthetics, and meanwhile it is also part memoir, the story of a young man finding his way from India to the West and back, and from literature to programming and back...Programmers feel an exhilarating creative mastery, and Chandra captures it."

-- "New York Times Book Review"

"Chandra weaves a comprehensive understanding of the history, practice and art of programming into a startling fabric...It is a dazzle, from beginning to end...Plenty of programmers consider themselves artists, and plenty of writers presume to declaim about programming. But very, very few can comfortably inhabit both worlds with such grace and precision...There is so much to be fascinated by here."

-- "Salon"

"Chandra, brainy, delving, and spellbinding, delineates the intricacy and beauty of code...As [he] illuminates links between programming and literature in bedazzling elucidations of Sanskrit, linguistics, aesthetics, and Hindu, Tantric, and Buddhist beliefs, he also conducts unique and heady inquiries into codes, ethical as well as binary. Chandra's creative and elegant meshing of thought and experience, conscience and storytelling nets both the profane and the sublime."

-- "Booklist"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798200023646
  • Publisher: Tantor Audio
  • Publisher Imprint: Tantor Audio
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 8200023648
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 2015
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty


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