Coupland, Douglas

Soon after Karen McNeil sees a vision of the future, she falls into a coma for seventeen years. When she finally wakes up, she realizes her vision is coming true and she is about to witness the end of the world.

Chronicles the story of four people who are still wrestling with sorrow fifteen years after a school shooting incident occurred in their sleepy suburban town.

The author captures the listlessness of growing up in the info-laden culture of the 1990s.

In this story of two worlds colliding, those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, Tyler Johnson, raised in a hippie commune, is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying northwest city and aspiring to a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.

Examines the life and work of Marshall McLuhan, a social theorist who predicted the end of print culture and the rise of "electronic inter-dependence" in the mid-twentieth century.