Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin · first published 2022
47% recommend53% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Novel about two friends who build video games together, praised for immersive narration, messy human characters, and a sense of investment in the story. Suits readers who enjoy character-driven fiction.
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful,
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…People : A short modern fairy tale by Kelly Link. • Metamorphosis : Kafka's famous short work about waking up as a giant insect. • Ubik : Fantastic sci-fi that interleaves a bunch of cool premises. • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : An emotional book about love and game design.
on “Ask HN: What is the most gripping thing you have read recently?” ↗My non-fiction pile is very peculiar to me (maths, probability, gambling, Rust and Elixir books, a backlog of a load of recent Humble Bundle deals), but I have some solid fiction recommendations: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is the sort of novel where you start to get sad as the weight of unread pages in your right starts to lighten. A novel about some friends who build some games (set in the 1990s and…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading these days?” ↗Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Three-Body Problem Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin, fantastic writing, touching and insightful "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. I'm huge Hardy fan but hadn't read his masterpiece until this year
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗…fill in the gaps in my free time. One recent fantasy series I liked was The Good Guys/The Bad Guys by Eric Ugland. Somehow kept me turning pages. some others (not fantasy) Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; But sometimes there is a lot of dreck to wade through. Been thinking of making a "stop reading and discard book" list like: - main character has unknown/dead parents, is secretly…
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗Well reviewed, i was just about to start reading it :) 3 authors i interviewed recommended it too… https://shepherd.com/book/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
on “A Novel About Video Games Became a Surprise Best Seller” ↗Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - This was best read of 2023 for me. The narration is very immersive and the author makes you very invested in the story. Shows the messy, complicated human side of things. And another plus was that it…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗My favorites that I read this year were: - Playground by Richard Powers: the ocean reminds us that we, along with our obsessions and rivalries, are small - Orbital by Samantha Harvey: a book were not much happens, but a lot goes on below the surface - Hum by Helen Phillips: looks at an AI controlled near future through a different lens - Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: sex, lies, and video games
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗To save you a click: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow,_and_Tomorrow,_and_...
on “A Novel About Video Games Became a Surprise Best Seller” ↗>In 2021, Paramount Pictures and Temple Hill Entertainment purchased the film rights for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow for $2 million. The film will be produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, and Isaac Klausner,with Zevin writing the script.
on “A Novel About Video Games Became a Surprise Best Seller” ↗I just finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky I'm currently reading Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences by Tynan Sylvester. A good friend of mine gifted me Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and I'm planning on getting into that one soon.
on “Ask HN: What are you reading these days?” ↗programming: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin is about game development.
on “Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read” ↗A while back, our neighborhood book club read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. One of the members said that she couldn't stand the jumping around in the narrative sequence of the book. It hadn't bothered me, and it was only later that I remembered that she habitually listens to…
on “Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author” ↗I only recently learned about this piece after reading Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It's on the cover and it plays a somewhat important role in the story.
on “Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?” ↗I've always found the social issues surrounding extending life to be chilling after reading Kurt Vonnegut's take on it in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomor...). What would a future look like where there is very little room for young people to grow?
on “Why We Age, Part III: Can We Live Forever?” ↗