SCOTT MITCHELL ROSENBERG

Scott RosenbergOur civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why its so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developersled by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapordesigning a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook. Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they wrestle not only with the abstraction of code, but with the unpredictability of human behavior especially their own.

Arizona. 1873. The ultimate showdown between cowboys and Indians is interrupted by an alien invasion. Every conqueror believes himself moved by a higher power, his destructive actions justified by necessity, compassion, or divine providence. In the greatest and most deadly expansion the world has seen, European settlers pushed west, decimating the native population without a second thought. But when aliens invade, they give the cowboys the fight of their lives, forcing them to pair with the Indians in a battle for control of the planet. The Old West will never be the same Cowboys and Aliens is the graphic novel on which the major movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford is based.

1873. ARIZONA. Una época en la que un hombre solamente podía confiar en su caballo y su revólver. Una época en la que los indios disputaban una batalla desigual contra los colonos europeos. Hasta que alguien más entró en liza: unos invasores que veían a todos los humanos como esclavos, una raza alienígena dispuesta a conquistar el mundo. Cowboys & Aliens es una de las novelas gráficas de mayor éxito en Estados Unidos de los últimos años, y su adaptación al cine, que llegará a las pantallas de todo el mundo en verano de 2011, será una de las películas del año, dirigida por Jon Favreau y protagonizada por Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig y Olivia Wilde.

Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shavingand take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous mythical man-month to Extreme Programming. Not just for technophiles but for anyone captivated by the drama of invention, Dreaming in Code offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind.