Bir gün Nostradamusun bile öngöremeyecegi felaketler basiniza gelebilir. Inandiginiz degerler sizi yüzüstü birakabilir. Hayatin size vaat ettigi seylere asla ulasamayabilirsiniz.1988 yilinda, üc lise ögrencisi, kantindeki yüzlerce ögrenciyi öldürmeye basladi. Ölenlerden biri de Cheryldi ve ölümünün ardindan, onunla baglantili tüm hayatlar parcalandi.Katliamin var oldugu yerde Tanri var midir Kadere inanmak ne zaman imkansizlasir Cinayet ve cin...
Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy—he believes in helping his fellow man and all that other good stuff. Sure, he can be foulmouthed, occasionally misogynistic, and just generally rub people the wrong way—through no fault of his own! So with all the positive energy he's creating, it's a little perplexing to consider the recent downward spiral his life has taken....An unemployed B-unit cameraman, Gunt accepts his ex-wi...
A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era.
50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that's redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'.
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A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Coupland's novel updates "Microserfs" for the Google age. Ethan and his co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company.
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and...
This irresistible little book offers a very different take on Vancouver, one of the world's most beautiful cities. Douglas Coupland applies his unique sensibility to everything from the Grouse Grind to glass towers, First Nations to feng shui, Kitsilano to Cantonese. Cleverly designed to mimic an underground Japanese magazine, this edition is fully updated and revised with riffs on Vancouver as a neon city, a land of treehuggers, and more.
È il 2020. Le api si sono estinte. Cinque persone, a cinque diverse latitudini, vengono misteriosamente punte. È così che un coltivatore di mais dell'Iowa, un parigino fanatico di World of Warcraft, una ragazza neozelandese dedita a bizzarre sfide virtuali, una canadese affetta dalla sindrome di Tourette e un centralinista dello Sri Lanka la cui famiglia è stata spazzata via da uno tsunami vengono catturati, sottoposti a test e interrogati da ...
Tutte le famiglie sono un po' psicotiche. Ma i Drummond, perfetto concentrato delle nevrosi dei nostri tempi, lo sono molto più di altre. Janet, la mamma, è sieropositiva per colpa del figlio Wade. Che, come se non bastasse, ha trasmesso la malattia anche alla nuova moglie-trofeo di suo padre, il burbero Ted Bryan, il fratello depresso, ha tentato il suicidio un paio di volte per poi fidanzarsi con una pseudo-no-global dal nome incomprensibile...
This compellingly innovative collection of stories, from the author of Generation X and Shampoo Planet, takes readers into worlds that exist but are rarely seen. With his new work, Coupland seeks to uncover a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast forward.
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?
Generation A "is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka--are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. "Generation A "mirrors Coupland's debut novel, 1991's "Generation X." It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it...