{{short description|American novelist}} {{more footnotes needed|date=November 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer|image=File:Douglaslain.jpg|birth_place=1970|notable_works={{hlist|''Bash Bash Revolution''|''Billy Moon''|''After the Saucers Landed''}}}} '''Douglas Lain''' ({{IPAc-en|l|eɪ|n}}; born 1970) is an American 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.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bash Bash Revolution |url=https://nightshade.start-publishing.com/book/2778/bash-bash-revolution/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Night Shade Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=SupaduDev |title=Billy Moon |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781429948074/billymoon |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Macmillan |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Philip K. Dick Award |url=https://www.philipkdickaward.org/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Philip K. Dick Award}}</ref>
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 was the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap" and the political podcast "Zero Squared". He was the publishing manager in charge of Zero Books from 2015 to October 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zero-books.net/authors/douglas-lain|title=Douglas Lain {{!}}{{!}} Zero Books {{!}}{{!}} Author Profile|website=zero-books.net|language=en|access-date=2018-04-19}}</ref> Following his departure from Zero Books, Lain joined the creative team at Sublation Media.<ref>{{Cite web |title=about |url=https://www.sublationmedia.com/about |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Sublation Media |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=team |url=https://www.sublationmedia.com/team |access-date=2022-07-09 |website=Sublation Media |language=en}}</ref>
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)
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==External links== *[http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2006/02/last_week.shtml Review of Last Week's Apocalypse] at "Strange Horizons", 20 February 2006. * {{ISFDB name|id=Douglas_Lain|name=Douglas Lain}}
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