%0 Journal Article
%T The Silicon Valley Novel
%A Joe Street
%A Martin Paul Eve
%J Literature & History
%@ 2050-4594
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0306197318755680
%X In this article we propose that one of the emergent, but under-charted, and as yet unnamed thematic strands in recent American fiction and that contributes to recent literary history is that of the ¡®Silicon Valley novel¡¯. The trend can be seen in the literary fiction of Tony Tulathimutte, Jarett Kobek, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Dave Eggers, to name but a few, but also in the trilogy of novels by Ann Bridges dubbed, ¡®The Silicon Valley Trilogy¡¯. Silicon Valley novels are concerned with the emergent technological industry in the Bay Area but they are also of a specific periodising moment. Hence, while named for the geography, we here situate the Silicon Valley novel as more tied to time in the early twenty-first century
%K American fiction
%K Silicon Valley
%K periodicity
%K thematics
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306197318755680