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International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.
In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species — and that there is no turning back. Показать

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)

«Grim Truth You're smarter than TV. So what?»

«Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)» Douglas Coupland

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)

«Frankentime What time feels like when you realize that most of your life is being spent working with and around a computer and the Internet.»

«Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)» Douglas Coupland

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)

«Fictive Rest The common inability of many people to be able to sleep until they have read even the tiniest amount of fiction. Although the element of routine is important at sleep time, reading fiction in bed allows another person's inner voice to hijack one's own, thus relaxing and lubricating the brain for sleep cycles. One booby trap, though: Don't finish your book before you fall asleep. Doing so miraculously keeps your brain whizzing for hours.»

«Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)» Douglas Coupland

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)

«-Rick, when Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, do you think he thought he was trading up or trading down? -Donald Duck? Trading down, obviously. Who wouldn't want to fly?»

«Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)» Douglas Coupland

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)

«When you're young, you feel like life hasn't yet begun, like life is scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays - whenever. But suddenly you're old, and the scheduled life never arrived.»

«Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)» Douglas Coupland

Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)

«By age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or any kind of professional. And by thirty, darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life, and you become resigned to your fate.»

«Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)» Douglas Coupland

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