2026-03-27 16:32 UTC
@debcha@saturation.social Same (though I was a bit older when I read it). It opened doors for me. That said, I'm glad Kidder didn't allow his success with SoaNM to define him narrowly as a chronicler of technologists. His other work transports you into seemingly ordinary worlds that have so much more to them than you'd imagine. That was his superpower as a writer, I think.
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@debcha@saturation.social 2026-03-27 16:38
@mattblaze@federate.social Agreed — I think he’s mostly a chronicler of ‘people doing things together’ rather than being focused on any specific milieu. That said, reading his obits and learning more about his background is very ‘oh yeah, 1981 really _was_ a different time for writers and publishing’.