- New from the best selling author of Generation X. 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 Coupland"s debut novel, 1991"s Generation X. It explores new ways of looking at the act of reading and storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland"s writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia.