Limited Social Circle: While most members of the group are shown as having other friends, they mostly interact with each other rather than these outside friends.Late Coming Out: The code tester "Bug Barbecue" comes out at age 31, as a result of being so close to San Francisco after the group moves to Silicon Valley from Seattle.The result? A few almost-invisible scratches. Indestructibility Montage: Several programmers do this to a Microsoft "Ship-It" award plaque by pouring acid on the plaque, dragging it behind their car on a rope, and so on.He was using his work at IBM to defer the grief of Jed's passing, and when he gets laid off early in the book he can defer it no longer and has a Tear Jerker of a breakdown. Heroic Safe Mode: It's implied that Dan's dad has been in this state ever since his little brother died.Dance Party Ending: Sort of, the last entry is about the night Dan and his friends attempted to recreate a Pink Floyd stage show with laser pointers for his disabled mother.
Artifact Title: The main cast all quit Microsoft relatively early on in the book and never go back.A Friend in Need: When Dan's mother has a stroke and becomes paralyzed, his friends all help take care of her.The book paints an intimate and deadly accurate picture of the time period, and makes you feel like you belong to the group characters as if you know them personally. After one of the group meets with Bill Gates himself for advice, they decide to quit Microsoft and move to Silicon Valley to start their own tech company, as well as get a life away from work.
It's about a group of friends who start out working junior positions at Microsoft in the early 90's and having little else to show for their life.
“The novel’s real fun is the frequent and rapidly fired pop-culture references that span the 70s, 80s and 90s.and Coupland uses them with relish.Microserfs is the fourth novel by Douglas Coupland, written in 1995. “Coupland continues to register the buzz of his generation with fidelity.” - Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own-living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them.
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