Mosman Readers

"Book lovers never go to bed alone"

Generation A - Douglas Coupland

I read this - and a couple of other Coupland novels - out of guilt. I'd not read anything* by the author who coined "Generation X" and is now synonymous with first-world web-enabled anti-Boomers.

Generation A is set in the near future. Bees are extinct. Or so it is assumed until five individuals, apparently unconnected, are stung.

Coupland says the book "champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defenses we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world".

Coupland didn't blow my mind but I enjoyed the stories, the contemporary references and especially the satire.

*Except Microserfs in Wired magazine, 1994