Douglas Coupland writes fiction and essays about work, consumer culture, technology and the identities formed by late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Generation X follows three underemployed friends in the California desert whose conversations about work, advertising and adulthood helped popularise the label for their age group. Microserfs centres on software workers who leave Microsoft to form a start-up, while JPod returns to technology through game developers trapped inside corporate absurdity. Coupland's prose is witty, episodic and saturated with brand names and cultural references, often mixing lists, visual devices and digression into the narrative. His work fits contemporary social satire, workplace fiction and technology-centred literary fiction. Read more Less
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