"An unexpected, inventive, heartfelt riff on the workplace novelstartup realism with a multiverse twist." Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley An adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds.
Once you sign an NDA it's good for life.
Meaning legally, I shouldn't tell you this story. But I have to. A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photo queues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks on the profile. Then, he disappears. One minute, hes in a windowless office, and the next, hes in a field of endless grass, gasping for air. When Ethan snaps back to DateDate HQ, hes convinced a coding issue caused the blip. Except for anyone to believe him, hell need evidence. As Ethan embarks on a wild goose chase, moving from dingy startup think tanks to Silicon Valleys dominant tech conglomerate, it becomes clear that theres more to DateDate than meets the eye. With the stakes rising, and a new world at risk, Ethan must choose whoand whathe believes in. Adventurous and hypertimely, Please Report Your Bug Here is an inventive millennial coming-of-age story, a dark exploration of the corruption now synonymous with Big Tech, and, above all, a testament to the power of human connection in our digital era.
