Douglas Lain is a popular writer who has written dozens of books throughout his career. Douglas Lain has also appeared in genre magazines such as Strange Horizons and Pif Magazine and is a blogger for The Partially Examined Life and Thought Catalog. In this article, we will list the best books written by Douglas Lain.
The Best Douglas Lain Books
Here are some of the best books Douglas Lain has written:
After the Saucers Landed
After the Saucers Landed is a novel about a Ufologist who sinks into depression after aliens arrive on earth. Harold Fint, a Ufologist, is depressed and heartbroken that aliens have landed on the White House lawn. What was even more frightening for Harold was that the aliens looked straight out of an old B movie.
In their jumpsuits, aliens’ wave to the TV cameras and then move the saucers over cities, looking for converts. Harold wants no part of the invasion until Asket, a beautiful blonde female alien, begs him to again investigate the saucers and write another book on UFOs.
However, Asket, the other aliens, and their missions are different from what it seems. Tracking down Asket’s real personality takes Harold and his co-writer through a maze of body-swapping and identity madness, and it descends into paranoia when Harold notices that reality, or at least humanity’s perception of reality may be more flexible than anyone thought.
Billy Moon
This novel follows the life of a grownup Christopher Robin Mile. Christopher Robin Mile, son of A.A. Milne, the world-famous author of children’s classics such as Winnie the Pooh, was Billy Moon. However, Billy’s life was anything but a fairytale, and being the son of a popular author meant Billy was often mistreated and ignored by famous parents.
Billy had to reconcile his self-image with the image known to children; he had to define himself and create his own little world. A father, husband, and World War II veteran, Billy is jolted with midlife ennui when a college student in France invites him to the country during the Paris revolt chaos.
Against the backdrop of the general strike that froze France and apocalyptic student protests, Billy’s new friend in France is a wild card.
His friend is able to experience different realities of the present and the past. Through his friend, Billy is transformed and illuminated.
Bash Bash Revolution
This is a novel based on artificial intelligence written by Douglas Lain. In this novel, 17-year-old Matthew Munson is among the best in his state in the Bash Bash Revolution, an old video game from 2002.
However, Bash Bash Revolution is still offering tournaments in 2017. Matthew is a high school dropout; he stays with his mother and does little but moping and gaming. However, things change when Matthew’s father, Jeffrey Munson, shows up one day.
Jeffrey is a computer geek who had left Matthew and his mom eight years ago to work on a secret military project. Jeff has been an on-and-off presence in Matthew’s life, and while Matthew was reluctant at first, he started bonding with his father while playing video games.
The pair entered local events together, and Jeff was particularly interested in the Bash Bash Revolution. However, as soon as Jeff appeared in Mattew’s life, he disappeared again just when he let his father back into his life.
This betrayal shattered Matthew, but Matthew didn’t give up and uncovered the true purpose of the artificial intelligence government operation that his dad was working on.
Wave of Mutilation
This novel is a dream exploration of American identity and modern architecture and is a Zen finger trap for the 21st century. On the eve of the presidential elections in 2001, Christian and his wife went to his father’s funeral in Tennessee.
At the American Museum of Science and Energy, Christian picks up a phone wired to an atom bomb exhibit. Christian interacts with his father’s ghost on the other end of the line. The ghost warns him about a world where there are no more illusions.
Then Christian descends into an Escher-like grid of comical absurdity and paranoia. Christian’s wife coughs up eggs as the elections come to a close and the votes are counted and re-counted.
Then, when the couple returns to Portland, their home, they are forced to join a neighborhood party at gunpoint. Convinced that his wife doesn’t exist anymore, Christian’s wife splits herself open and reveals that her body is hollow from the inside, but rather surprisingly, she is not dead. In fact, Christian’s wife is pregnant with the couple’s first child.
In order to survive this ordeal, Christian and his wife must transfer scenes from their past into reality before they get buried in a wave of mutilation by humanity.
Conclusion
Douglas Lain is a popular American author and has written different books and short stories for magazines. In this article, we discussed some of the best books written by Lain and summarized each book. While most of these books are fictional, they offer different perspectives.