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This is how you lose the time war is unlike any other book I've read! I thought it was super disorienting – and I loved that.

Ken Liu has some excellent short stories. His collection The Paper Menagerie from a few years ago was particularly great. (The titular short story won a Hugo.) He also translated t…

I think The Beginning Place is an underrated Le Guin book that didn't make the list! It's definitely not science fiction or even futuristic – more like fantasy plus magical realism…

I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of science fictional societie…

Google has some pretty good introductory writing resources for developers: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one

That being said, Microsoft and Google have decent, publicly-available tech writing style guides: -Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/acronyms -Google: https://…

I've also found that it's more useful to use a good doc as an outline for your own documentation than to start from scratch + style guide. Using a good doc as a guide can help you …

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

I'd say a first step is to start building a body of writing samples. You can do this in a lot of different ways, but two suggestions are 1. adding or improving documentation for an…

Have you ever considered technical writing? If you're a good writer with CS/engineering, you'd have a definite leg up over other applicants (even if you don't have direct tech writ…