Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
- Author
- Ted Chiang
- Published
- 2010
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Ted Chiang’s novella about people who raise digital pets that grow into minds, over a decade.
Where I heard about it
- Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — someone answered with a PDF of it. See The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023).
About this edition
Ted Chiang, 2010 — find a copy. It surfaced in a thread about PDFs, but it is a book still in print, so it belongs in the anti-library rather than in an archive of copies.