Sarah Drummond-Fournier is an astronaut, but she was a thalidomide baby who only has one arm. As she's about to be launched on a space shuttle, she confesses that she has AIDS, which she got when a bullet passed through the body of he...

Cluttered with pop-culture minutiae and self-consciously geeky references, this frantically metafictional slacker chronicle serves as an early 21-century update of the zeitgeist that Douglas Coupland explored so famously in MICROSERFS...

This account of a Columbine-ish massacre and its aftermath, is narrated by four characters: Cheryl, a highly religious teenager whose narrative leads up to the massacre (in which she is killed); Jason, the boy she was secretly married...

This account of a Columbine-ish massacre and its aftermath, is narrated by four characters: Cheryl, a highly religious teenager whose narrative leads up to the massacre (in which she is killed); Jason, the boy she was secretly married...

Liz Dunn lives an Eleanor Rigby-ish life until a series of strange events jolts her out of her stagnant existence. A meteorite drops to earth almost at her feet. The baby she gave up for adoption 20 years ago--now a desperately sick m...

"Wildly differing perspectives merge beautifully into one cohesive look at loneliness and despair. Yes, Coupland is dark and cutting about our fluorescent-lit times, but there's also a real underlayer of gratitude here, for the h...

Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as 'twentysomething.'Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit 'pointless job...

Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Ma...

Susan Colgate, a former beauty-pageant contender turned would-be actress, and Lodge Johnson, a filmmaker whose hedonistic world has been turned upside down by a medical crisis, shed their former identities to wander Los Angeles in sea...

Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people from around the world -- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka -- are all stung. Their shared experienc...

Set in an airport cocktail lounge during five hours of a global disaster, Coupland's latest work asks readers: At what point do humans stop being human and become something else? Where, if anywhere, do modernity and classical theology...

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, 'Global Teens.' Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living...