Uncanny Valley : A

Memoir
 By
Anna Wiener
HarperCollins Publishers
 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit

'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino

'This is essential reading' Stylist

At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her

assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow,
and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's phone had
worn thin.

Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley to take up a job at a

data analytics startup in San Francisco. Leaving her business casual
skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-
branded T-shirts. She had a healthy income for the first time in her
life. She felt like part of the future.

But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech

startups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only
eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual
harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everyone else,
she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing
social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she
began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young
men from America's soft suburbs wasn't just her own personal
pathology. It had become a global affliction.
Uncanny Valley is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of
our generation's very own gold rush. It's a story about the tension
between old and new, between art and tech, between the quest for
money and the quest for meaning - about how our world is changing
forever.

HarperCollins Publishers

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