It is November 1983 and young Billy Twist and his friends are about to discover the exciting new world of microcomputers.

Take a trip into the 80s world of micros, 80s pop culture, and classic video games in this diary for 8-bit micro fans and geeks. Billy and friends start their journey but run into some obstacles as they try to set up a computer gaming club, deal with bullies, experience new computers, and try to make some money to buy even more games!

Billy is a typical kid growing up in the 80s - the age of the microcomputer. An age of wonder for teens and adults alike. A nostalgic story of ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad, and Ataris.

JPod, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.

The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China.

JPod's universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. JPod is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.