# Douglas Alan: Fiction from an Unlikely Source

> Official site of novelist Douglas Alan, author of two comic novels published as "unlikelysource" books by Lulu in 2009: "Further Indications" (a comic novel with a touch of science fiction) and "The End, And Then?" (a science fiction comedy about the end of the world).

## Books

- [Further Indications](https://fiction.unlikelysource.com/further-indications): Douglas Alan's debut novel, ISBN 978-0-557-16008-2, published September 2009. A nameless college student sees a streetlight switch itself off and back on, the first of many "indications." His friend Bob Yee and Manure Man, a brilliant eccentric in a ski mask, trace the indications to evil beings called the Archons and conclude that the Earth is a ride in a cosmic amusement park whose only exit is death. The story moves from San Francisco to Tokyo, London and Paris, with two tangled love triangles and a plan to build The Bomb. Other characters: Anna Hanna (the narrator's bass-playing, parachuting girlfriend), Flash (who claims he can travel faster than light), Mary E. and Not Ernesto.
- [The End, And Then?](https://fiction.unlikelysource.com/the-end-and-then): Douglas Alan's second novel, ISBN 978-0-557-08606-1, published September 2009, about 600 pages. High school teacher Brian Bryant has a Top 40 song and a supermodel girlfriend when the End of the World arrives. A bureaucratic error assigns him to a thousand years as a part-time gardener, and to save humanity from an alien invasion fleet and a madman on the Moon he enlists Ignatz and Jerry, two bumbling alien scouts who resemble mice and are searching for Mickey Mouse. Other characters: TV reporter Lora Dora, Brian's rival AJ (who presides over the Final Judgment in Cleveland), Lucy Lavelle, Josh and Brenda, plus Colonel Hogan, Perry Mason and Rod Serling.

## About

- [About the author](https://fiction.unlikelysource.com/about)
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