microserfs (abridged audiobook)

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Release Date: 1995

Label: Harper Audio

Digitally recorded on April 5, 1995 in Los Angeles, CA by actor Matthew Perry.
This abridged version was approved by the author.
Digitally edited, mixed and mastered using the Sonic Solutions system.
Abridged with music.

Miicroserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving audio about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize they don't have a lite and who 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 Silicone Valley tech startups, 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."

Douglas Coupland gives listeners 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 trap doors of the new electronic order and involved in an engaging, awkward scramble toward love and success in a brave new world.