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Mike Trigg

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in Louisville, KY, The United States

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Thriller, Fiction, Contemporary

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Mike Trigg was born in Kentucky and raised in Wisconsin. Prior to becoming an author, he was an executive, founder, and investor in dozens of technology start-up companies for over 25 years.

Trigg’s debut novel, the Silicon Valley corporate thriller BIT FLIP, received widespread critical acclaim, with 5-star reviews from Foreword, IndieReader, and the Manhattan Book Review and lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “twisty, acerbic corporate thriller.”

His second novel, BURNER, is a “searing, all-too-believable novel” (BookLife Reviews, Editor’s Pick) and “fascinating thriller in which an online movement swallows up the person who started it.” (Foreword Clarion Reviews). Described as “a cautionary tale for the digital age” by IndieReader ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 241 ratings · 99 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bit Flip 3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burner 3.92 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outage: A Novel 4.56 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Anxieties of Outage Part III: Social

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This article is the third and final installment of my “Anxieties of Outage” series—the first focused on the most obvious anxiety explored in the book, Technology; the second focused on an equally prevalent anxiety of modern life, Politics. This third post delves into the social anxieties that many of us feel and that provide a backdrop of distrust in the novel.

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