Description
Through the Powerbook diary entries of Dan Underwood, a burned-out Microsoft programmer, Microserfs captures the frenetic energy and peculiar culture of tech workers in the 1990s—young coders who subsist on "flat" foods, obsess over Bill Gates's emails, and spend sixteen-hour days writing software. When Dan and five fellow "microserfs" escape the suffocating corporate machine to launch their own start-up called Oop! in Silicon Valley, they attempt to build not just an innovative company but also meaningful lives and genuine human connections. Living together in their self-dubbed "House of Wayward Mobility," this intrepid group navigates the disorienting landscape of the digital age, where ambition, friendship, and the search for identity collide with the relentless demands of the tech industry. Coupland's witty and incisive novel is both a hilarious satire of startup culture and a surprisingly tender exploration of one generation's strange, claustrophobic coming of age in an increasingly computerized world.
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paperback
ReganBooks
Published Jan 1, 1996
371 pages
ISBN: 9780060987046
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Details
First Published
1996
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Microserfs by Douglas Coupland.