The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000.
The Soul of a New Machine | |
| Author | Tracy Kidder |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Computer engineering |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | July 1981 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 293 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-49170-9 |
| OCLC | 7551785 |
| 621.3819/582 19 | |
| LC Class | TK7885.4 .K53 |
The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art" is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company," and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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