A digital love affair. Lara Croft is much more than the sum of her 38,000 polygons. Having jumped out of her virtual 3D environment and into the real world saturated with magazines and rock concerts, Lara has taken on a life of her own. With countless Web sites, fan letters, merchandise, TV commercials, and comic books dedicated to the worship of the world's digital Diva, Lara's fandom has swept the globe. Get to know the real Lara Croft–a fearless, tough, and completely loveable femme fatale! • Original fiction by Douglas Coupland starring Lara Croft • Thousands of Lara pictures • Exclusive interviews with Lara's designers and game developers • Background on the Tomb Raider story • Lara's impact on the game industry and world at large • Exclusive info about Lara's future career • Complete gameplay strategies for Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II, and Tomb Raider Gold • A guide to Lara's Internet sites, e-mail, merchandise, etc. • Complete Lara stats Ever alert to the trends of modern society in the digital age, Douglas Coupland turns his keen eye to the world's love affair with pop culture icon Lara Croft of the fabulously successful Tomb Raider video games. See Lara through the eyes of one of the 20th Century's most gripping young authors.
Author
Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, jPod premieres on the CBC in January, 2008. ——————————————————— Retrieved 07:55, May 15, 2008, from http://www.coupland.com/coupland\_bio....
