HACKER Q&A
📣 malloryerik

What's some great fiction for founders and entrepreneurs?


Everything from directly related to somehow just feels right.


  👤 vanilla-almond Accepted Answer ✓
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

I can't resist mentioning this book. It's not fiction, but it reads like fiction - it has all the ingredients for a compelling fiction story: oversized characters, delusions of grandeur, deception, giant egos, and so much more. But it's not fiction, it's all true. Hollywood wants to make it into a movie, and when you read the book you'll know exactly why.


👤 webmaven
'The Deadline: A novel about project management' by Tom DeMarco

Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (sequel to the Phoenix Project)

Makers by Cory Doctorow

Daemon & Freedomâ„¢ by Daniel Suarez

The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

The Blue Ant trilogy (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History) by William Gibson

Omnitopia: Dawn by Diane Duane

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Reamde by Neal Stephenson

Lock In by John Scalzi

Rascal Money by Joseph Garber


👤 bredren
The Door into Summer by Heinlein

Has a kooky invention, lots of great cat stuff, talk of money, founder disputes and sci-fi. 10/10.


👤 stakkur
Silicon Valley on HBO. Fabulously unrealistic, but some characters are uncomfortably believable.


👤 rl1987
"The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" by Gene Kim et. al.

👤 crazypython
I would also like to see recommendations for fiction for social skills and leadership.

👤 new_realist
Most pitch decks turn out to be fiction. Try those.

👤 crazypython
Keeper of the Lost Cities gives a sense of adventure and focus on the present that feels just right.

👤 zn44
Kill Process by William Hertling

And

Kill Switch also by William Hertling


👤 wiseleo
I like Tom Clancy's writing.

👤 test3729
Cryptonomicon

👤 markus_zhang
The Noble House

👤 wiseleo
S1 filings :)