 The Soul of a New Machine | |
| Author | Tracy Kidder |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Computer engineering |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | July 1981 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 293 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-49170-9 |
| OCLC | 7551785 |
| 621.3819/582 19 | |
| LC Class | TK7885.4 .K53 |
The Soul of a New Machine is a nonfiction 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.[1]
The book, whose author was described by the New York Times as having "elevated it to a high level of narrative art"[2] is "about real people working on a real computer for a real company,"[3] and it won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[4] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
- ^ "The Cathedral was a Computer". The New York Times. September 6, 1981.
- ^ Samuel C. Florman (August 23, 1981). "The Hardy Boys And The Microkids Make A Computer". The New York Times.
- ^ John W. Verity (October 1981). "The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder". Datamation. pp. 225–226.
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"National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
This was the award for General Nonfiction (hardcover) during a period in National Book Awards history when there were many nonfiction subcategories.