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JOHN MARKOFF
has been a technology and science reporter at the
New York Times
since 1988.
He was part of the team of
Times
reporters that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and is the author of
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
.
He lives in San Francisco, California.

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ALSO BY JOHN MARKOFF

What the Dormouse Said:

How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

Takedown:

The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer Outlaw—By the Man Who Did It
(with Tsutomu Shimomura)

Cyberpunk:

Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
(with Katie Hafner)

The High Cost of High Tech:

The Dark Side of the Chip
(with Lenny Siegel)

CREDITS

Cover design by Allison Saltzman

Excerpt of “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” from
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan.
Copyright © 1967 by Richard Brautigan.
Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Richard Brautigan; all rights reserved.

MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
.
Copyright © 2015 by John Markoff.
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FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-226668-2

EPub Edition AUGUST 2015 ISBN 9780062266705

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