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Description
Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as "microserfs," they spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" (writing... read more
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“If you ship on time you get a Ship-It award: a 12-x-15-x-1- inch Lucite slab - but you have to pretend it's no big deal. Michael has a Ship-It award and we've tried various times to destroy it - blowtorching, throwing it off the veranda, dowsing it with acetone to dissolve it - nothing works. It's so permanent, it's frightening.”
First Sentence
This morning, just after 11:00, Michael locked himself in his office and he won't come out.
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Authors & Contributors
- Douglas Coupland (Author)
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