Douglas Lain () is a writer whose books include the post-singularity novel ''Bash Bash Revolution'' from Night Shade Books, the magical realist novel ''Billy Moon'' from

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, and the Philip K. Dick Award nominated novel ''After the Saucers Landed.'' His short stories have appeared in genre magazines such as '' Interzone'' and ''

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'' as well as in online publications such as '' Pif Magazine'' and ''

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''. He has written nonfiction as well as fiction and is a blogger for ''

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'' and ''

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''. Lain's fiction has been generally well received by critics in journals and periodicals such as ''

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'' (Rich Horton// Locus Magazine; January 2012, Issue 612, Vol. 68 No. 1), ''

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'' (Olson, Ray // Publishers Weekly; 19 December 2005, Vol. 252 Issue 50, p 46), and ''

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'' 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 was the publishing manager in charge of

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from 2015 to October 2021. Following his departure from Zero Books, Lain joined the creative team at Sublation Media. He lives in

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Bibliography

Novels

*''Bash Bash Revolution'',

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(2018) *''After the Saucers Landed'',

(2015) *''Billy Moon'',

(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,

'' (2016) ''In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World'',

(2015)

References

External links

Review of Last Week's Apocalypse
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