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Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0976542684
Pages: 244 pages
Publisher: StoneGarden.net
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Memoirs of a Virus Programmer by Pete Flies

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NEW FICTION TITLE COMBINES OFFICE SPACE, CANDIDE, and FIGHT CLUB

A Sci-Fi Comedy in the New Economy: "Memoirs of a Virus Programmer"

Portland, OR, December 15, 2005 – What would drive someone to create a computer virus? In the new novel, "Memoirs of a Virus Programmer" by first-time author Pete Flies, the answer is love and madness. A young programmer named Johnny Pepper begins his career with absurd optimism and gradually transforms into an isolated criminal. The title is available at Amazon, Powell's, Barnes and Noble, and Borders.

Modeled after Voltaire's "Candide," the short chapters in "Memoirs of a Virus Programmer" are stuffed with humor. The pace quickens as Pepper struggles against a love-hate relationship with technology. The setting is Minneapolis in the year 2000. Fans of Office Space and Fight Club will be a target audience, and Flies has described the novel as "Neo-Luddite" literature and "a science fiction comedy."

The naïve Pepper is surrounded by modern character archetypes. From his faceless project manager, to his pontificating cube-mate, to the desperate housewife next door, he stumbles his way through a fictional memoir, making mud of his ideals. The tone and pace of the novel is upbeat: "My manager spoke in a genial manner, and as he spoke, his brushy moustache bounced over his upper lip like a little floor broom at work. "