The
recurrent character in the short stories of
science fiction master
Stanislaw Lem. Tichy (whose name, it is revealed in the
Star Diaries, stems from the sound "
tsk-tsk") is an
everyman character, an
average guy but also a
programmer and an
astronaut. Thus,
Lem anticipated, back in the early 1960s, the rise of
silicon valley, where every other person is yet another
code-slinging geek.
Tichy appears most prevalently in Tales of Pirx the Pilot and The Star Diaries.