JPod

Possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today. JPod is without doubt his strongest, best-observed novel since Microserft, to which it is a kind of sequel’ Observer
Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of bone-headed marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan’s personal life is being invaded by marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and the rise of China. Everybody in both worlds seems to inhabit a moral grey zone, and nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland himself…. Do you want to start play?Y/N