Ellen Ullman has worked as a software engineer and consultant since 1978, Her writing has been published in Resisting the Virtual Life, Wired Woman, and in Harper's Magazine. She is a commenter on National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered."
San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin...