He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, e-flux, Dis and Vice. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for the Financial Times. Since then, Coupland has written twelve more novels, which have been published in most languages. His first novel was the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Read moreĭouglas Coupland (pronounced KOHP-lend) (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian writer, designer and visual artist. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and entertaining novel to date. Generation A mirrors the structure of 1991's Generation X as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defences we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated searately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung.
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