PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE

A millennial coming-of-age novel with an undercurrent of mystery, PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE seeks to discover how we can step outside the worlds we inhabit and reinvent ourselves in order to find new, more genuine ways of being. The novel marries Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and The Circle, with The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

A newly minted college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be—a city full of visionaries making the world a better place. Yet his job as the sole nontechnical employee at DateDate, a dating app startup, is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of rethinking intimacy, he spends each day reviewing flagged photo queues full of porn and neo-Nazi imagery. 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 generated profile. Then, he disappears. Or at least that's what it feels like. One minute, he's in a windowless office, and the next, he's in a field of endless grass, gasping for air. When Ethan snaps back to DateDate HQ, he's convinced an issue in the coding caused the blip. Except for anyone to believe him, he'll need evidence.

As Ethan embarks on a goose chase through the SF tech scene, moving from dingy startup thinktanks to the chrome-slick office of the Corporation, Silicon Valley's dominant tech conglomerate, it becomes clear that there's more to DateDate than meets the eye. With the stakes rising, and a new world at risk, Ethan must choose who—and what—he believes in.

Adrenaline packed and hyper timely, Please Report Your Bug Here is an inventive millennial coming-of-age story, a dark exploration of the corruption now synonymous with tech, and, above all, a testament to the power of human connection amid increasingly digital communication.

Josh Riedel worked in Silicon Valley for seven years: first at pre-IPO Facebook, then at a small travel startup acquired by Facebook, and finally as the first employee at Instagram, where he helped see the startup through its acquisition, again by Facebook. He earned his MFA from the University of Arizona and has been published in One Story, Sycamore Review, and Passages North. The short story that inspired Please Report Your Bug Here was the Wabash Prize Winner in Fiction, a finalist in BOMB Magazine's Fiction contest, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His Instagram is @josh and his website is joshriedel.com.