Microserfs

James Burke's book version of 'Connections' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55024.Connections Also Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs', described as "Here's a guy who seems to have spent a week with engineers and effortlessly absorbed everything that is important about engineering culture, everything that matters about working at a big company, and everything that matters about working at a startup." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs

The copy I own says "Soon to be a movie" I wonder what ever happened to that. I re-read it for the first time since it came out, it aged way better than Gen-X did for me.

Not strictly what you're asking for, but you might enjoy Microserfs.

So it's not exactly what you asked for (Fiction) but you might want to check out Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. Also, Jpod from Coupland, it's along the same lines. Quoting wikipedia: "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."

I just re-read "Microserfs" and "Generation X" by Douglas Coupland. I actually read both of these years ago when they first came out. I am amazed at how prescient they were. So many themes and ideas that I had buried away were right there on the printed page. Looking back over the past decade of my own life I can see that even though I wasn't aware of it, these books had a profound influence on my dreams/ideas/aspirations.

Read the Cryptonomicon. It's an awesome work of fiction, and it involves lots of geek interests. Alternative suggestions are Microserfs and JPod.

Thanks for all suggestions! Looking forward to some good reading this summer. I have read Microserfs and JPod. Really enjoyed both of them. Also, the TV version of JPod is not that bad.

Microserfs - they start as employees and create a startup.

That's a great book. I think it's the only startup fiction I've ever read, and it inspired me quite a deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs

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