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Canadian ([[Stargate City|Vancouver]]) author, designer and visual artist. His early novels feature characters struggling-to-come-to-terms-with-the-conditions-of-post-modern-life, later works tend to be comic and use [[Refuge in Audacity]] plot twists.▼
[[File:Douglas Coupland Photo of Author.jpg|thumb|300px|Douglas Coupland in 2013.]]
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[[Needs More Love]]▼
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# Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991)
# Shampoo Planet (1992)
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# Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
# Eleanor Rigby (2004)
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# The Gum Thief (2007)
# Generation A (2009)
# Player One: What is to Become of Us (2010)
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== Girlfriend In A Coma ==
* [[Apocalypse How]]: somewhere between Classes Two and Three. {{spoiler|Although wild animals still exist, by the third part of the book, all human life has ended, save for the main characters. Heavily implied to be an engineered catastrophe by the same forces that incapacitated Karen; Jared makes it clear that if Richard and his friends don't make the best of their second chance, the world will end for good.}}
* [[Dead All Along]]: Jared, who died of cancer while in his teens. See [[Posthumous Narration]].
* [[Depopulation Bomb]]: the Sleep.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: the characters {{spoiler|save for Karen}} get to re-live their lives, with the added bonus of Pam and Hamilton being drug-free and Jane being able to see. However, {{spoiler|they have to experience the world ending and everyone they love dying first.}} YMMV on ''how'' happy their ending is, however - see [[Go Mad
* [[Five-Man Band]]
** [[The Hero]]: Richard
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** [[The Chick]]: Pam
** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Megan, Jane and {{spoiler|Jared and Wendy's baby}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Karen's letter to Richard, in which she describes what is about to take place. Later, Pam and Hamilton experience visions of international death and destruction in tandem while they're unconscious and undergoing detox.
* [[Go Mad
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Karen. She goes back into her coma at the end, so that her friends may have a second chance at life and the world will be restored to normal. Although Richard tries to stop her, she makes it clear that she's always known this will have to happen, and there is no way out.}}
* [[It Got Worse]]: when Karen comes out of her coma, it signifies the beginning of the end of the world.
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* [[Posthumous Narration]]: most of the book is from Jared's viewpoint, as he's the one who oversees events and acts a sort of guardian angel to the characters {{spoiler|(and tells them about their Plan B)}}. Richard narrates the first part since, according to Jared, he's 'the best talker'.
* [[He Knows Too Much|She Knows Too Much]]: Karen believes this was why she went into her coma in the first place - she caught a glimpse of the future, and it wasn't pleasant.
* [[Shout
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