by Newberry
First published 1997
Claris works at a major computer company during the database software boom of the 1990s. She spends her days troubleshooting FileMaker Pro 3, helping customers migrate between Mac and Windows platforms while the tech industry transforms around her. When her company faces a crucial product launch, Claris must choose between following corporate directives and protecting the users who depend on her expertise. The office politics grow more complex as deadlines approach and competing platforms threaten market share. Claris discovers that the technical problems she solves daily pale beside the human complications of workplace loyalty, professional integrity, and personal ambition. The story captures how individual lives intersect with technological change during a pivotal moment in computing history.
Genres: fiction, business, contemporary, computers, technology, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: professional-integrity, workplace-drama
Setting: Mac, Windows
Period: 1990s
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