Ask HN: Fictional books related to startups?

Although not a book, I recommend watching "August" - a movie I discovered last summer on HN about the startup-scene in NYC during the boom. An interesting story and journey for sure.

"hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble", by Tom Evslin (pub. 2007).

Tom is a software hacker himself and a very well known serial startup entrepreneur, with successes in comm and graphics apps (both Mac and PC) and then a huge IPO for his company ITXC during the internet bubble. His fictional murder mystery is based on his insider view of startups, both the both technical and financial sides.

Go to http://hackoff.com (note that the fictional domain which is the title of the book is also a real domain to promote the book). You can read the entire book or listen to Tom read the entire book free, or receive all the text episodes by RSS or email, or receive all the audio episodes by RSS or podcast. You can order the hardback book edition from Amazon, or buy a Kindle edition.

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

Another one, though this guy did NOT reply to my email, is about a publishing (not coding) startup, Burn Rate.

Discworld's Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett are worth checking out. They are sort-of about startups; the main character has to re-organize the Post Office and the Banking system.