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Fun fact: he is (or maybe "was", now that his fiction is so successful) a technical writer.
by kaycebasques 10y ago
Fun fact: he is (or maybe "was", now that his fiction is so successful) a technical writer.
- jkchu 10y agoThe article mentions this several times. He still is a technical writer, and it is his primary source of income because he only writes when a good idea comes to him. I would be curious to find out how much he got paid for "Arrival".
- state 10y agoSomeone just told me this yesterday, and I found it so interesting. I'd be so curious to know what he was writing / who he was writing for. Those must be some fantastic docs!
- philiplu 10y agoWell, 25 years ago, he worked down the hall from me at Microsoft, writing docs for the Fortran compiler. Not sure if he ever wrote docs for the C/C++ compiler that I worked on (this was pre-Visual C++ or maybe just as VC got started), nor do I remember how long he was there. But I do remember being thrilled that a Nebula and Campbell award winner was a co-worker.
- moyix 10y agoI asked him about this at a reading he did a few months ago – apparently he still does technical writing for them, and at least some of it is still in their C++ documentation.