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Bio
CANADIAN AUTHOR. Essayist on history and Millennial tech culture. Blogger. Poet and writer of literary fiction and creative non-fiction.
LC Douglass writes dark matter literary fiction. Almost 5 per cent of ordinary matter and energy are measurable. The rest, made up of dark matter and dark energy, lies beyond our ken. Douglass follows the conventions of historical research and realism. However, her stories describe a reality which is much larger than we normally presume.
Originally from Montreal, she received early training in visual arts in Ottawa. After studying history, literature, and German, she lived in Europe for several years while doing doctoral work in modern history at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
She is writing a history of the 21st century on her blog, HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COME, with a focus on the impact of technology. One reader has described it as "the greatest blog on the Internet." The site has a regular international readership of 30,000+ hits per month and a total of 5+ million hits.
What's New
podcast
Happy New Year!
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The podcast continues this week with my Solar System Space Opera! Created by Suno-AI, I developed prompts to generate these pieces. Suno has a mass pop music base line and those who are more creative with prompting do have more nuanced results.
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There will be a discussion on the ideas behind the Space Opera and how it aligns with the Dark Matter symbol later in January, 2025.
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My new AI-generated podcast series explores themes in my work, while testing whether such tools can be used to market and publicize my literary work. The AI podcasters generate their own curious literary analyses. The podcast is based on documents which I wrote for it, along with links to my blogs and to this site. The podcast was developed with Google's NotebookLM. Many thanks to Jenna Soard for introducing me to these tools and their potential.
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The first podcast introduces me as an author and is also up on Youtube. The second podcast introduces the literary sub-genre I invented, Dark Matter Literature.
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Follow up blog posts on the AI podcast are at Histories of Things to Come, The Dragonfly, and Patreon.
readings
& Publications
30 October 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Readings of "The Name that Flies across the Earth," "Cakes from the Garden," and "The Red Room"
Venue: The Write Thing
Hosted by The Glengarry Artists' Collective
Alexandria Restaurant, Alexandria, Ontario
Canada
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Recent publications:
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"The Name that Flies Across the Earth" (to be published by The Glengarry Artists' Collective, 30 November 2024).
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"Cakes from the Garden" (2022) in Taj Mahal Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Dec. 2022.
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"Leaves and Acorns" (2022).
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"Up through the Pink Light" aka "Locked Down in the Lockdown" (2020)​​.
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