Douglas Couplands most ambitious and entertaining novel to date. GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people around the world - in the US, Canada, France, New Zealand and Sri Lanka - are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. GENERATION A mirrors Couplands debut novel, 1991s GENERATION X. Like much of Couplands writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia.