Douglas Coupland was the writer who coined the term “Generation X.” His first novel was “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” (1991). A second novel, “Shampoo Planet” (1992), and a collection of stories, “Life after God” (1994), followed. In 1995, he published his best-known novel, “Microserfs,” a comic yet realistic look at the lives of techies in the 1990s. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
