Ask HN: Fictional books related to startups?

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

Seconded.

Non-fiction, but the best tech startup story I know of:

The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt is pretty good.

Dreaming in code is a book about the startup life of the Chandler project.

I have read Microserfs and JPod. Really enjoyed both of them.

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.

microserfs

Non-fiction but I love "Showstopper" about Dave Cutler and Windows NT 1.0.

Discworld's Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett are worth checking out.

"The Truth" and "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett both capture a sense of startupness.

This just occurred to me: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I have read Microserfs and JPod. Really enjoyed both of them.

jPod (not sure, too long ago that I read it)

I'm enjoying "What the Dormouse Said: How 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer"

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure: Jerry Kaplan (Jerry is such a nice guy that he answered my email).

thought Fire in the Valley was worth mentioning.