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Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix...you can't stop with just one. "Bit rot" is a term used in digital ar ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'My name is Liz Dunn. The Liz Dunns of this world take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their children muesli. They own one sex toy, plus one cowboy fantasy that accompanies its use
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. 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 en ...Show more
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people around the world ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ ...Show more
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lu ...Show more
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Andy, Dag and Claire represent the new generation - Generation X.
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Abacus 40th edition by Douglas Coupland
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of b ...Show more
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear - all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged m ...Show more
JPod by Douglas Coupland
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Very evil ... Very funny. A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Coupland's forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames end in 'J' are bureaucratically marooned in JPod. JPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the ...Show more
JPod by Douglas Coupland
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life i ...Show more