In late-1990s/2000s Cambridge and Los Angeles, childhood acquaintances Sam Masur and Sadie Green reunite as young adults and, together with Sam's roommate Marx, found a video game studio, building acclaimed titles while navigating Sam's chronic pain from a foot injury/amputation, professional rivalry, and a decades-long entangled friendship.
Books mentioned in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (13)
Iliad by Homer: “A player asks an NPC "What's your favorite part of The Iliad?" and the NPC recites lines describing Andromache”
The Odyssey by Homer: “Marx suggests they reread "The Odyssey and The Call of the Wild and Call It Courage"; later a scene is described as straight out of The Odyssey”
The Call of the Wild by Jack London: “Named alongside The Odyssey as a book Marx suggests rereading”
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry: “Named alongside The Odyssey and The Call of the Wild as a book Marx suggests rereading”
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking: “A character "would pick up A Brief History of Time, and fondly pat its cover"”
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster: “A character has already finished reading The Phantom Tollbooth for the second time, which was the only book she'd brought with her that day”
Walden by Henry David Thoreau: “Described as a book people did not wish to devote free time to reading by candlelight”
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter: “Per the author's acknowledgments, this is the book about consciousness Sadie references regarding an AI version of deceased loved ones”
The White Album by Joan Didion: “Marx reads Joan Didion's White Album in a waiting room and later pretends to have left it there”
King Lear by William Shakespeare: “Listed as a school production ("Junior year: King Lear, Twelfth Night")”
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: “Listed as a school production, and later referenced as a play being staged (contrasted with The Tempest)”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “A character says he's always wanted to play Macbeth; discussion of casting Banquo/Richard Burbage in a stage production”
The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “A director wished she was directing The Tempest instead of Twelfth Night”