Andrew Smith Books in Order

Smith seeks out the surviving Apollo astronauts to ask how walking on the Moon changed their lives. Their memories connect an extraordinary public achievement with the private difficulty of returning to ordinary life on Earth.

Smith follows internet pioneer Josh Harris through the boom and collapse of the early web. Interviews and journeys trace how fortunes vanished while Harris’s unsettling social experiments anticipated the online world that followed.

Journalist Andrew Smith learns to program while investigating the people and ideas behind software. His encounters with coders and researchers explore how systems few understand increasingly shape human behavior, power, and the future.