Douglas Lain

• Jan-2006
• / Fantasy
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Gore Vidal meets Philip K. Dick: These stories present electric messiahs, identity constructs, the Beatles, and even nuclear Armageddon as comic foils for Lain's everyman characters. Here is an America where the packets of Sea Monkeys that arrive in ...

• May-2011
• / Science Fiction
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In these four stories, Douglas Lain explores the painful and mysterious chasms in the hearts and minds of people who want to break out from their lives, but find themselves becoming stagnant and self-destructive. Unable to escape or move forward, the...

• Oct-2011
• / Science Fiction
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A dream-pop exploration of modern architecture and the American identity, Wave of Mutilation is a Zen finger trap for the 21st century.
It is the eve of the 2001 presidential election. Christian and his wife have traveled back to Tennessee to atte...

• Sep-2013
• / Fantasy
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In Douglas Lain's debut novel set during the turbulent year of 1968, Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for his father’s fictional creation, struggles to emerge from a manufactured life, in a story of hope and transcendence. Billy Moon wa...

• Aug-2015
• / General Fiction
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"When the alien gets around to unzipping her jumpsuit it’ll be impossible to see what’s underneath." UFOlogist Harold Flint is heartbroken and depressed that the aliens that have landed on the White House lawn appear to be straight out of an o...

• Sep-2015
• / Science Fiction
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In the Shadow of the Towers compiles nearly twenty works of speculative fiction responding to and inspired by the events of 9/11, from writers seeking to confront, rebuild, and carry on, even in the face of overwhelming emotion.Writer and editor Doug...

• Sep-2015
• / Science Fiction
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In the Shadow of the Towers compiles nearly twenty works of speculative fiction responding to and inspired by the events of 9/11, from writers seeking to confront, rebuild, and carry on, even in the face of overwhelming emotion. Writer and editor ...

• Jul-2016
• / Science Fiction
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In 1987, the New York Times published their first front-page review of a science fiction anthology for a collection called IN THE FIELD OF FIRE, themed around the war in Vietnam. "Vietnam was science fiction," the reviewer wrote, and writing about it...

• Apr-2018
• / Science Fiction
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A compelling coming-of-age artificial intelligence novel from Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author Douglas Lain. Seventeen-year-old Matthew Munson is ranked thirteenth in the state in Bash Bash Revolution, an outdated video game from 2002 that, ...