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Remember to give a basic biography...

Much\footnote{This footnote courtesy of JordiGH} of his writing has been focused on the idea of a \textit{"generation X"}, and how they tend to integrate into society. Born in the 60s and 70s, and reaching adulthood in the 80s, they were the generation who defined the dot-com bubble. Coupland had covered them in \underline{Generation X: Tales for} \underline{an Accelerated Culture}; \underline{Generation A}, where he talks about a group of people unique for having gotten bee stings in a post-bee world; and in \underline{Microserfs}, a story about a group of young Microsoft employees, who leave their stable office jobs to jumpstart a company in Silicon Valley. His settings are all in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, about the time that members of generation X would be growing up and either entering the workforce or already being a part of it. All the works are done in a journal-style format; in
\underline{Microserfs}, for example, the main character, Daniel
Underwood, writes his entries on his Powerbook, presumably at the end of each excursion. The stories arent told in real time, but each journal entry is written separately, and they form days and later chapters, with some time jumps present in between chapters. However, they all seem to take fairly linear storylines; with the exception of the occasional reminiscing everything happens progressively with no returns to the past. The exception would perhaps have been
\underline{God Hates Japan}; however the piece is very elusive and followed the other stories in their other styles. For all intents and purposes, his main works have worked in a linear mode.

The works ended up being more or less satire, a take on the silliness of various situations, or at least are retellings of different stories in perspectives that are not always noticed or realised. For the build-up of \underline{Generation X}, he had been living in the Mojave
Desert, planning to write a book about the generation that followed the baby boomers; however, he ended up writing \underline{Generation X}, the piece that helped put him on the map. For Microserfs, he was working for the magazine \textit{Wired}, and had written a short story about the lives of employees at Microsoft. It later evolved into
Microserfs after he immersed himself in life in Palo Alto, California, and the rest of Silicon Valley. Coupland is certainly the kind of author who will research his ideas before writing a fictional story, attempting to be as accurate