"Hey Nostradamus"! is Coupland`s first novel to feature a full complement of three-dimensional It is a measure of Coupland`s new-found objectivity that he grants Reg the final word. The masterful concluding section of the book presents a pitiful portrait of a wretched, broken figure who has come to realize that he terrorized others as a means of extinguishing the terror within Somewhere deep in Coupland`s consciousness is a little door marked "greatness". He may slip through it yet.