Douglas Lain
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Douglas Lain (/leɪn/; born 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a writer whose books include the post-singularity novel Bash Bash Revolution from Night Shade Books, 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 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 was the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap", and currently hosts a political podcast "Zero Squared". He is also the publishing manager in charge of Zero Books.[2]
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bibliography[]
Novels[]
- Bash Bash Revolution, Night Shade Books (2018)
- 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)
Multiple author anthologies (editor)[]
Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War, Night Shade Books (2016)
In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World, Night Shade Books (2015)
References[]
- ^ Lain, Douglas. "Good Reads biography page". Good Reads. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ "Douglas Lain || Zero Books || Author Profile". www.zero-books.net. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
External links[]
- Review of Last Week's Apocalypse at "Strange Horizons", 20 February 2006.
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American science fiction writers
- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Memphis, Tennessee
- Novelists from Tennessee
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American male writers