I believe Ken MacLeod was a programmer and he is an great writer (along with Stross and Vinge mentioned in a sibling comment) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken

I believe Ken MacLeod was a programmer and he is an great writer (along with Stross and Vinge mentioned in a sibling comment) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod