Douglas Coupland

About the Author

Douglas Coupland was born December 30, 1961 on a Canadian military base in Baden-Soellingen, Germany. He graduated from Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver in 1979 and went on to McGill University. He was unhappy there and went on to Emily Carr College of Art and Design. He has said that show more these were the best four years of his life. He graduated in 1984 with a focus on sculpture and moved on to study at the European Design Institute in Milan. He also completed a two-year course in Japanese business science in Hawaii in 1986.He soon began writing for magazines as a means of paying the bills. He soon started work on his first novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture which was published in 1991. His second novel Shampoo Planet focused on the generation after Generation X and was published in 1992. This generation was termed "Global Teens". His career has consisted of writing, sculpting, and editing and he also hosted The Search for Generation X, a PBS documentary, 1991. Douglas Coupland has also worked on a magazine called Wired . He wrote a short story about the life of the employees of Mocrosoft Corporation. This short story provided inspiration for his novel Microserfs. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Douglas Coupland

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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) 5,386 copies

Microserfs (1995) 4,941 copies

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998) 3,239 copies

JPod (2006) 3,210 copies

Hey Nostradamus! (2003) 2,818 copies

All Families are Psychotic (2001) 2,624 copies

Life After God (1994) 2,438 copies

Shampoo Planet (1992) 2,261 copies

Eleanor Rigby (2004) 2,040 copies

Miss Wyoming (2000) 1,881 copies

The Gum Thief (2007) 1,561 copies

Polaroids from the Dead (1996) 961 copies

Generation A (2009) 940 copies

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture) (2010) 646 copies

Worst. Person. Ever. (2013) 351 copies

Souvenir of Canada (2002) 319 copies

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver (2000) 274 copies

Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! (2010) 214 copies

Bit Rot (2016) 142 copies

Souvenir of Canada 2 (2002) 133 copies

The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present (2015) 107 copies

Terry (2005) 87 copies

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People (2011) 74 copies

Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different (2021) 51 copies

The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers (2005) 46 copies

Fred Herzog: Photographs (2011) 41 copies

Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real 21st Century (2013) 39 copies

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent (Writers in Residence) (2014) 34 copies

School Spirit (2002) 28 copies

Lara's Book--Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon (1998) 27 copies

God Hates Japan (2001) 20 copies

Machines Will Make Better Choices Than Humans (2019) 8 copies

Michael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference Times: A Visual Record (2019) 7 copies

Duane Hanson (2015) 4 copies

The Gum Thief / Glove Pond (2007) 3 copies

Dio odia il Giappone 1 copy

Γενιά Χ : ιστορίες για μια έκρυθμη κουλτούρα (1993) 1 copy

Komadaki Sevgilim 1 copy

כוכב הלכת שמפו (1996) 1 copy

Twenty-Minute Stories 1 copy

Rex Ray: Art + Design 1 copy

everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything 1 copy

Super City 1 copy

Dear Republic of Cameroon and Republic of Cape Verde (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 copy

Survivor 1 copy

Montecristo magazine, Winter 2012, Vol. 05, No. 04: The Gamechanger Douglas Coupland [periodical] 1 copy

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McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Contributor — 283 copies

Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (2007) — Contributor — 137 copies

Disco 2000 (1998) — Contributor — 97 copies

Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (2010) — Contributor — 92 copies

Slacker: A Screenplay (1992) — Foreword — 85 copies

Granta 141: Canada (2017) — Contributor — 58 copies

Paddle Against the Flow: Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Cultural Rebels (2015) — Foreword, some editions — 33 copies

Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies

Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage (2004) — Contributor — 11 copies

States (2005) — Contributor — 10 copies

Tomb Raider: The Book (Prima's Official Strategy Guides) (2001) 7 copies

Prachtig weer verhalen (1994) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Hey Nostradamus!: A Novel by Douglas Coupland

This is really one of is bests.

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Lokileest | 39 other reviews | Apr 2, 2024 |

JPod by Douglas Coupland

The only thing I remember about this book, nine years on, was that one of the characters built a "hug machine" based on Temple Grandin's design and all the programmers were into it. (Which is... not even that clever or interesting an idea, tbh.) A hug machine sounded pretty appealing to me, though, as did a career in software development.

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caedocyon | 107 other reviews | Feb 23, 2024 |

JPod by Douglas Coupland

Crazy but relatable. Glorious pop culture fest for nerds.

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jd7h | 107 other reviews | Feb 18, 2024 |

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (The CBC Massey… by Douglas Coupland

I've really enjoyed some of Coupland's books. But I actively disliked every.single.character. In this one, and disliked the literary device of switching between the different POV's.

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jilldugaw | 27 other reviews | Jan 27, 2024 |

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