A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, jPod premieres on the CBC in January, 2008. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work.

He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia.

Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. Douglas Coupland’s novel Microserfs is about the spiritual yearnings and time-frittering activities of youngish coders immersed in the drudgery of the software-development process, and how those activities become an expression of those yearnings. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland - View book on Bookshelves at Online Book Club - Bookshelves is an awesome, free web app that lets you easily save and share lists of books and see what books are trending. There they meet the lost generation, struggling to get a life. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. This novel takes the reader on-line into the brave new world of computer giant, Microsoft. Living together in a sort of digital flophouse -'Our House of Wayward Mobility' - they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.įunny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's very strange and claustrophobic coming of age.ĭouglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop! in Silicon Valley. Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program. Known as 'microserfs,' they spend upward of 16 hours a day 'coding' (writing software) as they eat 'flat' foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to 'flame' one of them. They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of. Now, Sakura is thrust into a mystical journey to capture all the cards before they wreak chaos and destruction Cardcaptor Sakura, Vol. 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. The book once contained a set of magical Clow Cards, but they all escaped while the guardian of the book fell asleep.

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