Douglas Lain’s fiction has appeared in literary and genre magazines since 1999. His first short story collection, Last Week’s Apocalypse, was published by Night Shade Books in 2006, and his first novel, Billy Moon, was published by Tor Books in 2013. Lain is also the publisher of Zero Books and occasionally writes on philosophy for the Partially Examined Life blog and Thought Catalog.

Douglas Lain

How I Accidentally Wrote the Antithesis of a Spielberg Blockbuster

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Douglas Lain’s fiction has appeared in literary and genre magazines since 1999. His first short story collection, Last Week’s Apocalypse, was published by Night Shade Books in 2006, and his first novel, Billy Moon, was published by Tor Books in 2013. Lain is also the publisher of Zero Books and occasionally writes on philosophy for the Partially Examined Life blog and Thought Catalog.