Options

“Politically incorrect. . . . skewers Silicon Valley, with touches of Bonfire of the Vanities, Dilbert, and Revenge of the Nerds” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs.

• Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can't literally put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.”
• Fake Steve the political hobnobber: “I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.”
• Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: “Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don't know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin.”
• And on, yes, himself: “Geniuses have feelings, too.”

In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D. C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: “It's like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he's got telekinetic powers and it's just too bad if he doesn't want them, he's got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It's who I am.”

“Fake Steve's ruthless inner monologues about those around him ring truer than most nonfiction profiles of tech's movers and shakers.” —Wall Street Journal

“A funny send-up of Apple's CEO, the go-go culture of Silicon Valley, and the cult of Mac, iPhone, and iPod.” —Boston Globe