Douglas Lain
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Douglas Lain (born 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a fiction writer who has been compared to Philip K. Dick and Pamela Zoline.
Publishing mostly in genre magazines, Lain's stories and novellas might be called interstitial or "slipstream" (a term invented by the cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling). His first book, the collection Last Week's Apocalypse, was deemed surrealist by Publishers Weekly, featured a cover illustration by CRASS artist Gee Vaucher, and was released from Night Shade Books in January of 2006. His stories "A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story" and "Music Lessons" were selected for Rich Horton's anthology Science Fiction the Best of the Year 2005 and Gavin Grant and Kelly Link's anthology "The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet" respectively.
Lain is also the co-editor along with M.K. Hobson of Diet Soap, a surrealist 'zine of "dissident literature," the co-author of the Artists and Writers Petition Against the War on Iraq, and formerly an organizer of protests against the Patriot Act and the bombing of Afghanistan.
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Short Story Collections
- Last Week's Apocalypse, Night Shade Books (2006)
[edit] External links
- A page about Douglas Lain's debut collection
- Douglas Lain's Homepage, the author's official site. Includes his blog, bibliography, and links to some of his stories online.
- Douglas Lain's livejournal
- / Doug Lain Walks the Plank Jeff Vandermeer interviews Douglas Lain
- Mahesh Raj Mohan interviews Douglas Lain for Strange Horizons, April 17, 2006
- Diet Soap 'zine.
[edit] Short Stories Available Online
- 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.
[edit] Reviews of "Last Week's Apocalypse"
- [1] "Clamor Magazine", Summer 2006
- [2] "Strange Horizons", 20 February 2006.
- "A yard sale of charmingly off-kilter ideas "The Oregonian", 26 February 2006.
