his second novel, "shampoo planet", was published by pocket books in 1992. it focused on the generation after generation x, the group called "global teens" in his first novel and now generally labeled generation y. coupland permanently moved back to vancouver soon after the novel was published. he had spent his "twenties scouring the globe thinking there had to be a better city out there, until it dawned on [him] that vancouver is the best one going". he wrote a collection of small books, which together were compiled, after the advice of his publisher, into the book "life after god". this collection of short stories, with its focus on spirituality, initially provoked polarized reaction before eventually revealing itself as a bellwether text for the avant-garde sensibility identified by ferdinand mount as "christian post-christian".