Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon

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Prima Pub., 1998 - Tomb raider - 187 pages
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 fandom: 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.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Section 1
4
Section 2
7
Section 3
12
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

alcove ammo amulet Atlantean atop Avoid Backflip Backtrack bad guy begin blade Blast boulder bridge cave chamber Check Claim Climb the ladder Collect Continue crack dark Dodge Dowager Dragon Drop edge Enter exit face fall Find the Secret floor Follow the passage forward GAME going Gold grab the ledge hall hallway Hang Head hole island Joni Jump and grab Kill landing Lara Croft Lara's Leap Look lower Ming-Wo Move mummy nearby opened door Pass past pillar Ping Place platform pool Pull puma Push the box Push the button ramp reach Return rocks Roll Run and jump says Shimmy Shoot Shotgun shells side Slide slope small Medi Pack spikes stairs Stand Stone structure Surface Swim switch to open Take Throw the switch TOMB RAIDER trapdoor tunnel underwater upper Walk walkway wall Watch window

About the author (1998)

Douglas Coupland was born December 30, 1961 on a Canadian military base in Baden-Soellingen, Germany. He graduated from Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver in 1979 and went on to McGill University. He was unhappy there and went on to Emily Carr College of Art and Design. He has said that these were the best four years of his life. He graduated in 1984 with a focus on sculpture and moved on to study at the European Design Institute in Milan. He also completed a two-year course in Japanese business science in Hawaii in 1986.He soon began writing for magazines as a means of paying the bills. He soon started work on his first novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture which was published in 1991. His second novel Shampoo Planet focused on the generation after Generation X and was published in 1992. This generation was termed "Global Teens". His career has consisted of writing, sculpting, and editing and he also hosted The Search for Generation X, a PBS documentary, 1991. Douglas Coupland has also worked on a magazine called Wired. He wrote a short story about the life of the employees of Mocrosoft Corporation. This short story provided inspiration for his novel Microserfs.

Bibliographic information

TitleLara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon
AuthorsDouglas Coupland, Kip Ward
Editionillustrated
PublisherPrima Pub., 1998
ISBN0761515801, 9780761515807
Length187 pages
  
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