Les livres de Coupland, Douglas

High school senior Karen Ann McNeil has lapsed into a coma. While her boyfriend, Richard, and their circle of friends make their way in the world, Karen remains comatose for nearly twenty years. She wakes up to find them living in an emotional purgatory and a different world. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Dissatisfied with life at Microsoft, a group of programmers leave the company in search of high-tech life in their own software company. Some strong language.

Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament - and eerie premonition - on a school binder shortly before a trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake, the sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood where it occurs declares its saints, brands its demons, and finally moves on.

Liz Dunn is overweight, crabby, plain, and alone, and is almost resigned to her fate of being nobody's wife or mother. As the Hale-Bopp comet streaks across the Vancouver skies, another comet crashes into her life - a young man admitted to the local hospital with her information inscribed on his Medic Alert bracelet: 'In case of emergency, contact Liz Dunn'. This triggers a chain of events that take Liz to the other side of the world and back, endangering her life just as a real chance at happiness finally seems within reach.

A portrait of disenchantment at the end of the twentieth century. Andy, Claire, and Dag, all in their twenties, have dropped out of society and are living in Palm Springs in the Mojave Desert working at low-paying, dead-end jobs. As they trade stories and secrets, it becomes evident that they are disturbed young people searching for permanence where there is none.

Members of the Drummond family descend upon Florida to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah, but their trip is turned upside down by a series of mishaps. And Sarah, the star of the latest NASA shuttle mission, has an ex-husband and three children, some of whom are struggling with AIDS, manic-depression and violence. No one is looking forward to getting together for Sarah's pre-flight farewell banquet.

In the early 1960s, McLuhan wrote that visual, individualistic print culture would be replaced by what he called "electronic interdependence," creating a new "global village". Novelist Coupland regards the celebrated academic as a kind of performance artist, offering profound but sometimes obscure insights into how technology was reshaping the world and its inhabitants.