I’m super excited about the new upcoming novel by Douglas Coupland. The new novel is titled “Generation A” and it’s expected to be published in September 2009. The title indicates a connection with the first novel written by Coupland “Generation X”. Here is the book blurb from the official website:

In the near future bees are extinct—until one autumn when five unconnected individuals, in Iowa, New Zealand, Paris, Ontario, and Sri Lanka, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together on a remote Canadian island. But their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.

Generation A mirrors the structure of 1991’s Generation X as it 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.

I find it a little bit scary that Coupland has gone back to his first novel, I hope this has nothing to do with retirement or an intention to quit. 

It looks like this story will be a mix of Generation X and jPod. Can’t wait for September to come!