Douglas Lain
Douglas Lain (born 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a postmodern writer whose books include the Bizarro fiction novella Wave of Mutilation from Eraserhead Press, the magical realist novel Billy Moon from Tor Books, and the Philip K. Dick Award nominated novel After the Saucers Landed.[1]
His short stories have appeared in genre magazines such as Interzone and Amazing Stories as well as in online publications such as Pif Magazine and Strange Horizons. He has written nonfiction as well as fiction and is a blogger for Thought Catalog and The Partially Examined Life. Lain's fiction has been generally well received by critics in journals and periodicals such as Locus Magazine (Rich Horton// Locus Magazine; January 2012, Issue 612, Vol. 68 No. 1), Publishers Weekly (Olson, Ray // Publishers Weekly; 19 December 2005, Vol. 252 Issue 50, p 46), and Rain Taxi Magazine (Dole, Kevin//Rain Taxi; Vol. 11 No. 2, Summer 2006, #42).
Lain is the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap", and according to his blog, as of January 2015, he became "the new publisher for zero books" [2]
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bibliography
Novel
- After the Saucers Landed, Night Shade Books (2015)
- Billy Moon, Tor Books (2013)
Novella
- "Wave of Mutilation", Fantastic Planet Press (2011)
Nonfiction
- Pick Your Battle, Funded through Kickstarter (2011)
Short story collections
- Fall into Time, Eraserhead Press (2011)
- Last Week's Apocalypse, Night Shade Books (2006)
References
- ↑ Lain, Douglas. "Good Reads biography page". Good Reads. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ Lain, Douglas. "zero books and diet soap". douglaslain.net. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
External links
- Wave of Mutilation, a novella Eraserhead Press, October 2011
- Pick Your Battle: Your Guide to Urban Foraging, Hollywood Movies, Late Capitalism, and the Communist Alternative (a memoir)
- Fall Into Time, Eraserhead Press, May 2011
- Last Week's Apocalypse, Night Shade Books, 2006
- Douglas Lain's Homepage, the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and links to some of his stories online.
- Diet Soap Podcast.
- Mahesh Raj Mohan interviews Douglas Lain for Strange Horizons, 17 April 2006
- Diet Soap Podcast #34-Reading of How to Cut Your Life to Pieces, 2 December 2009
- One Thousand Words Podcast: Conversations about the history of the Avant Garde
- Douglas Lain at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Short stories available online
- Resurfacing Billy,"Futurismic November 2008.
- How to Cut Your Life to Pieces,"Farrago's Wainscot" May 2008.
- A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, Strange Horizons, 7 February 2005.
- Shopping at the End of the World, Strange Horizons, 22 September 2003.
- The '84 Regress, The Infinite Matrix, 5 May 2003.
- "Identity Is a Construct" (and Other Sentences), Strange Horizons, 14 January 2002.
- Free Speech and the End of the World, Pif Magazine, November 2001.
Reviews of Douglas Lain's Books
- Review of Pick Your Battle at Red Metaphor, 8 June 2011
- Review of Fall into Time, 29 August 2011
- Review of Last Week's Apocalypse at "Strange Horizons", 20 February 2006.