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In January of 2009 Tor Books
will release my novel Billy Moon: 1968. In January of 2006 World Fantasy Award winning publisherNight Shade Booksreleased Last Week's Apocalypse
(stories by douglas lain) in Trade Paperback. For more
information go to the Last
Week's Apocalypse webpage.
New FictionHow to Cut
Your Life to Pieces Farrago's Wainscot
Forthcoming In sixth grade you found yourself on your red
Schwinn again, the one with the banana seat that had a busted seam so that
the foam pad stuck out the side when you sat on it. You stopped outside North
Middle school with one foot on a pedal and the other inside a two-square box,
and you watched a flock of geese fly in a V, heading south. The birds had an
instinct for this; they knew where and how to position themselves in relation
to each other. The mass of them passing over your head was a wonder that made
you stop and watch even though you knew that you were running late, and even
though you'd seen it all before. The second bell had already rung, and you
would be given another official tardy, but you didn't care. This time you
stopped and watched the geese, listened to them honk and bleat as they
passed. You took a deep breath, adjusted the straps on your nylon backpack,
and then saw that you'd left the pack unzipped. You checked to make sure your
three-ring binder was still there, that your sheets of stapled homework
assignments and plastic ziplock bag of pens were all still in place, but
found it was all missing. When you looked up again the geese were gone and it
was time to go into North Middle School and face your first period teacher,
but you just couldn't. Not this way.
Full BibliographyIn April of 2001 I was interviewed for the
"Oregon Authors" column in the Eugene newspaper the
Register-Guard. Douglas Lain Douglas Lain recognizes that he is a member of
the entertained public -- a public that Guy Debord described in his 1978 film
In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni as "dying in droves on the
freeways, and in each flu epidemic and each heat wave, and with each mistake
of those who adulterate their food, and each technical innovation profitable
to the numerous entrepreneurs for whose environmental developments they serve
as guinea pigs." Last week Lain drank six Starbuck's coffees and
daydreamed about revolution 12.5 times. Douglas Lain lives in Portland,
Oregon with his wife and four children. Email him at douglain(at)hevanet.com
Here are some reviews and comments from readers. A reader of this site emailed the following
description: And then there's his TRIBUTES to all his role
models and (presumably absentee) mentors, who of course are supposed to
vicariously grant him greatness or at least shed some degree of credibility
or potential awe on him. I've never even heard of most of them. Except Kurt
Vonnegut Everybody's heard of him. My original blog was was so successful that I got
fired from it. So I started another blog, over at livejournal.com. Next thing you know I'll be joining Friendster. If you haven't read Silly Thinking, or as it's
called now ST, you probably should because, as the saying goes, STIS! If, on the other hand, you're a fan of mine you
may want to focus your attention on my daily musings and mind numbing
ramblings. After all, what's better than focusing in on one perfectly average
person, deifying him or her, and then scrutinizing his or her every
utterance? Or as Noam Chomsky said once: I'm rather against the whole notion of
developing public personalities who are treated as stars of one kind or
another where aspects of their personal life are supposed to have some
significance, and so on...
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