Career
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, Volume(s) 68 Number 1), Publishers Weekly (Olson, Ray // Publishers Weekly.
19 December 2005, Volume(s) 252 Issue 50, p 46), and Rain Taxi Magazine (Dole, Kevin//Rain Taxi. Volume(s) 11 Number 2, Summer 2006, #42).
Lain is the host of the philosophy podcast "Diet Soap", and according to his blog, as of January 2015, he will be "the new publisher for zero books"
He lives in Portland, Oregon. Resurfacing Billy,"Futurismic November 2008.
How to Cut Your Life to Pieces,"Farrago"s Wainscot" May 2008.
A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story, Strange Horizons, 7 February 2005. Shopping at the End of the World, Strange Horizons, 22 September 2003. The "84 Regress, The Infinite Matrix, 5 May 2003.
"Identity Is a Construct" (and Other Sentences), Strange Horizons, 14 January 2002.
Free Speech and the End of the World, Pif Magazine, November 2001. = Reviews of Douglas Lain"s Books Review of Pick Your Battle at Red Metaphor, 8 June 2011
Review of Fall into Time, 29 August 2011
Review of Last Week"s Apocalypse at "Strange Horizons", 20 February 2006.
