Microserfs

Microserfs

Author	Douglas Coupland
Cover artist	William Graef
Language	English
Genre	Epistolary novel
Set in	Redmond, Washington and Silicon Valley, 1993–94
Publisher	Regan Books, HarperCollins
Publication date	June 1995
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	371 (Hardback)
ISBN	0-06-039148-0 (USA hardback), ISBN 0-00-224404-7 (Canada hardback)
OCLC	32167397
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3553.O855 M53 1995
Preceded by	Life After God
Followed by	Polaroids from the Dead

Microserfs is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland published by HarperCollins in 1995. It first appeared in short story form^[1] as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length.^[2] Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and anticipates the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

The novel is presented in the form of diary entries maintained on a PowerBook by the narrator, Daniel. Because of this, as well as its formatting and usage of emoticons, this novel is similar to what emerged a decade later as the blog format.

Coupland revisited many of the ideas in Microserfs in his 2006 novel JPod, which has been labeled "Microserfs for the Google generation".^[3]