Douglas Lain (born 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a fiction writer who has been compared to Philip K. Dick and Pamela Zoline. His first novel, entitled "Reinventing Christopher Robin" is due out from Tor Books in August of 2013.
His stories and novellas might be called interstitial or "slipstream" (a term invented by the cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling). However, his second short story collection Fall Into Time was recently published by the Bizarro publisher Eraserhead Press, and includes the story "Noam Chomsky and the Timebox" about a tech blogger who travels back in time and becomes obsessed with a twenty-two minute period in the Chicago O'Hara Airport on November 16th, 1971, when Noam Chomsky and Terence McKenna nearly met.
Lain is also the author of a the surrealist memoir Pick Your Battle, a book that explores the possibilities involved in urban foraging and psychogeography. Lain self-published this book with funding from Kickstarter.
His novella "Wave of Mutilation" was published by Fantastic Planet Press and was described as a "A dream-pop exploration of modern architecture and the American identity" by the publisher. On the release of this novella Kris Saknussemm compared Lain to J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and Walker Percy, and the novella received an endorsement from Jeffrey Ford. His first novel is due out in 2013 from Tor books. It is the story of Christopher Robin Milne's entirely imaginary involvement with the French Student/Worker Movement of Mai 1968, and will be entitled "Reinventing Christopher Robin."
Lain is also the host of the podcasts "Diet Soap" and "One Thousand Words." He was the co-author of the Artists and Writers Petition Against the War on Iraq, and was formerly an organizer of protests against the Patriot Act, the bombing of Afghanistan, and the Iraq war. As some kind of Zizekian Communist Lain has written about conspiracy theories including Project Bluebeam.
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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