Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After On | 2017 | Rob Reid | Buy |
After On takes the familiar territory of Silicon Valley culture and uses it as the backdrop for a story about what happens when a social media platform accidentally develops genuine intelligence. The tone is comic but the ideas underneath are taken seriously.
Reid draws on his background as a tech entrepreneur, and the novel has a lived-in quality that purely outside observations often lack. The startup world, the investor dynamics, and the culture of the Bay Area all feel observed rather than invented.