Microserfs
By: by Douglas Coupland.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ReganBooks
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Computer software industry -- Fiction; Young adults -- Fiction
Description: Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize they don't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech 1990s American geek culture.

Amid a Seattle backdrop of software corporate cultishness ("B-B-B-B-Bill!") and the financial terror of San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech startups, the members of Coupland's quirky ensemble "stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hopes that when they reassemble their exploded pieces they will be somebody different.".

Coupland gives readers an intimate, deadly accurate, and very funny view of a way of life that is quickly becoming the dominant way of life: friends, families, and lovers falling through the trapdoors of the new electronic order and becoming involved in an engaging, awkward scramble toward love and success in a brave new world.
Table of contents: title: Microserfs; title: Oop; title: Interiority; title: FaceTime; title: TrekPoliticks; title: Chyx; title: Transhumanity.