The Grid

by Peter Seibel

Moore's Law has crashed. Peak Oil has hit. Computing is no longer cheap and is controlled by the few. Alan Gregoire spends his days squeezing minute optimizations out of code until an unexpected bug leads him into a world of underground hackers bent on changing the system.

Genres: Fiction

129 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 2015

Reviews

[Ravi Sinha · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I found out that a software professional had written a dystopian novel about the future of computing, I had to dig in. While it's no literary classic, and while it does occasionally sound slightly naïve when it comes to character/ story development, a highly recommended piece of work for programmers, software professionals, security professionals, cloud professionals, as well as everyone else.

[Dmytro · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was surprised when I found out that Peter Seibel wrote a fiction book. I liked his Practical Common Lisp. This is a short fiction about hackers, living in not so distant future and fighting for free software and Freedom of information. Somehow, while reading the book, I associated Grid Co. with Amazon :). It's a great funky book with a lot of cool references that will be recognized by any programmer.

[James Healy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice easy read by a well-known software developer who covers technical topics with some authority.

The characters seem a bit shallow and the message of the book is a subtle as a sledgehammer, but A+ for technology accuracy.

[Ryan Frantz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun read!