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.

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硅谷小说

在这篇文章中，我们提出了在近期美国小说中出现的、但未充分说明且尚未命名的主题分支之一，它对最近的文学史做出了贡献，那就是“硅谷小说”。这种趋势可以在托尼·图拉西穆特、贾瑞特·科贝克、托马斯·品钦、唐·德里罗和戴夫·艾格斯的文学小说中看到，仅举几例，但也可以在安·布里奇斯的小说三部曲中看到，被称为“硅谷三部曲” . 硅谷小说关注的是湾区新兴的科技产业，但它们也属于特定的时期。因此，虽然以地理命名，但我们在这里将硅谷小说与 21 世纪初的时间联系在一起。