I love Ellen Ullman's writing. Her prose is crystal clear and as just-so as a well-designed algorithm. She's a literary geek who doesn't try to hide her geekiness. I was recently reading her programming-focused (but still excellent, even if you're not a programmer) novel The Bug, when I came across the following:

"Trainers?" Ethan asked, incredulous. Trainers trained users, he thought, not programmers. Trainers knew even less than testers, even less than the people at the bottom of the heap: technical writers.

Ouch.