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
‘There is brilliance at work in JPod. Not to mention more LOLs than you could shake a bong at’ LOS Angeles Times
‘A dazzling comic novel, confirming that there is on current form no funnier novelist writing in English’ Literary Review
‘A wonderfully inventive book, fizzing with wit and black humour’ Sunday Tribune
‘Blackly funny….as a chronicler of the techno-times Coupland is pretty much still out on his own’ Irish Times