Douglas Coupland is out promoting jPod, and among the media coverage is this reader Q&A on Britain’s Telegraph site. The Vancouver author gets whimsical now and then: asked how he’d like to be remembered, he says, “He had the power to obliterate Earth with the push of a single button, and yet he chose to exercise mercy and decided not to.” But he’s also serious and thoughtful. When one reader asks about his monologue “September 10, 2001,” which posits a pill that could take people to a world where 9/11 never happened, he says, “I wonder what 2006 would be like if the hijackers had screwed up and nothing had come of the 9/11 flights. I think the world we’d be inhabiting would be a false paradise. That world might, in its own way, be far worse than the one we inhabit now. So, no, I wouldn’t take the pill.”

(Thanks to Bookninja.com for the link.)

Related links:
Click here for the Coupland Q&A
Click here for a Q&Q Coupland profile from January/February 2006