The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant.
Guardian
Eminently readable, humorous, and philosophical.
Library Journal
As always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they’re quirky, often funny, and frequently profound.
Daily Mail
[Player One] feels essential because this is a novel obsessed not only with time, and the curse of experiencing the world through linear time, but with stories and the breakdown of storytelling as a way of making meaning in our lives.
Globe and Mail
An apt critique of modern consciousness.
Publishers Weekly
[Douglas Coupland has] an ease with the language of modernity that contemporary Great North American Novelists should envy... his Eeyorish pessimism, left-field humour and admirable ability to enunciate all of our half-formed thoughts raise this from a sterile dissertation on why modern life is rubbish into the realms of really great fiction.
Independent
A taut and scintillating exploration of time, Coupland’s tale is both smart and suspenseful while simultaneously questioning the meaning of narration.
Booklist
Douglas Coupland takes readers on a captivating ride.
Winnipeg Free Press
Packed full of ideas and always a joy to follow.
Big Issue Scotland
As Player One haunts the pages of this book, the ideas and inferences you read will haunt your mind every time you indulge in a modern day convenience, such as filling a vehicle up with gas, making this book a worthy read.
Silo
This is a superior read for those who want the latest thoughts from a nimble, complex author who thinks about this kind of stuff all the time.
Tampa Tribune