Author Gene Doucette
@genedoucette.bsky.social
Novelist, short fiction...ist?, screenwriter. I hate my photo; please don't look at it.
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Elegy for Zephyr One - Lightspeed Magazine
Post-flight debrief. Subject: Michael Ackine, of the Astronomic Endeavors cargo ship, Zephyr One. Introductory notes: Mr. Ackine is the only survivor of the Zephyr’s maiden voyage. Z-One landed safely...
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My newest short story, ELEGY FOR ZEPHYR ONE, is available today in Lightspeed Magazine!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eleg...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eleg...
My newest short story, ELEGY FOR ZEPHYR ONE, is available today in Lightspeed Magazine!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eleg...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eleg...
Elegy for Zephyr One - Lightspeed Magazine
Post-flight debrief. Subject: Michael Ackine, of the Astronomic Endeavors cargo ship, Zephyr One. Introductory notes: Mr. Ackine is the only survivor of the Zephyr’s maiden voyage. Z-One landed safely...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My newest short story, ELEGY FOR ZEPHYR ONE, is available today in Lightspeed Magazine!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eleg...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/eleg...
"I enjoyed this but it was too short."
My dude, it was a novella.
My dude, it was a novella.
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"I enjoyed this but it was too short."
My dude, it was a novella.
My dude, it was a novella.
Hey! LAST CONTACT, book two in my novella series SUNSET STATION, is coming out on Tuesday, 9/9! How cool is that?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH7G4VQ2
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH7G4VQ2
Last Contact (Sunset Station Book 2)
Amazon.com: Last Contact (Sunset Station Book 2) eBook : Doucette, Gene: Kindle Store
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September 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hey! LAST CONTACT, book two in my novella series SUNSET STATION, is coming out on Tuesday, 9/9! How cool is that?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH7G4VQ2
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH7G4VQ2
THE APOCALYPSE SEVEN is in some fantastic company here. theportalist.com/books-like-p...
10 Books Like 'Project Hail Mary' by Andy Weir
This year, fans will get to see the film adaptation with Ryan Gosling in the leading role. There’s plenty of time to catch up before its release, but if you’ve already read it and want something else
theportalist.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
THE APOCALYPSE SEVEN is in some fantastic company here. theportalist.com/books-like-p...
Lovely review in Locus Magazine, for my short story "Rthing It Up: An Oral History"
locusmag.com/2025/07/giga...
locusmag.com/2025/07/giga...
GigaNotoSaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed: Reviews by Charles Payseur
GigaNotoSaurus 4/25 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/3/25 Lightspeed 5/25 The latest from GigaNotoSaurus is A.V. Greene’s “Horror Vacui”, in which Meghan accidentally stumbled into hell as a child. Accide…
locusmag.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Lovely review in Locus Magazine, for my short story "Rthing It Up: An Oral History"
locusmag.com/2025/07/giga...
locusmag.com/2025/07/giga...
Reposted by Author Gene Doucette
Your Daily Dose of #Empathy (myreadinglife.com/2025/07/08/t...)
A tired father tells his precocious seven-year-old daughter a bedtime story.
"The Hole in the Garden" by @genedoucette.bsky.social (2023) — 4,353 words
Published in @lightspeedmagazine.com issue #160, September 2023.
A tired father tells his precocious seven-year-old daughter a bedtime story.
"The Hole in the Garden" by @genedoucette.bsky.social (2023) — 4,353 words
Published in @lightspeedmagazine.com issue #160, September 2023.
The Hole in the Garden by Gene Doucette
A tired father tells his precocious seven-year-old daughter a bedtime story about a quantum singularity in a man’s garden. “The Hole in the Garden” by Gene Doucette (2023) — 4,353…
myreadinglife.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Your Daily Dose of #Empathy (myreadinglife.com/2025/07/08/t...)
A tired father tells his precocious seven-year-old daughter a bedtime story.
"The Hole in the Garden" by @genedoucette.bsky.social (2023) — 4,353 words
Published in @lightspeedmagazine.com issue #160, September 2023.
A tired father tells his precocious seven-year-old daughter a bedtime story.
"The Hole in the Garden" by @genedoucette.bsky.social (2023) — 4,353 words
Published in @lightspeedmagazine.com issue #160, September 2023.
honestly, coming up with additional ways to skin cats doesn't seem like a great use of my time
July 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
honestly, coming up with additional ways to skin cats doesn't seem like a great use of my time
Asked my wife what we were planting in the garden and she said "seeds" and you'll be happy to know I did not leave her on the spot
June 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Asked my wife what we were planting in the garden and she said "seeds" and you'll be happy to know I did not leave her on the spot
AI-gen bio has decided to follow Highlander rules: There Can Be Only One Gene Doucette
June 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
AI-gen bio has decided to follow Highlander rules: There Can Be Only One Gene Doucette
Hey u guys let's go to this island full of dinosaurs no don't worry i'm sure everything will be cool this time
June 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hey u guys let's go to this island full of dinosaurs no don't worry i'm sure everything will be cool this time
It's release day, for my very first short fiction collection!
June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's release day, for my very first short fiction collection!
i have a new collection coming out on June 10th. Act accordingly.
May 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i have a new collection coming out on June 10th. Act accordingly.
been watching Star Trek: Voyager and I think it's really fortunate that they had something like 27 shuttles aboard when they got lost in the gamma quadrant #startrek
May 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
been watching Star Trek: Voyager and I think it's really fortunate that they had something like 27 shuttles aboard when they got lost in the gamma quadrant #startrek
Me, trying to explain why I won't turn on the GenAI plagiarism machine my employer installed on my work laptop: I am not a Luddite; I am a novelist.
May 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Me, trying to explain why I won't turn on the GenAI plagiarism machine my employer installed on my work laptop: I am not a Luddite; I am a novelist.
Can't wait for the day Disney decides to make animated versions of the live action versions of the animated versions of their movies
May 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Can't wait for the day Disney decides to make animated versions of the live action versions of the animated versions of their movies
Reposted by Author Gene Doucette
Great story by @genedoucette.bsky.social , but I recommend listening to it as narrated by the great @stefansecho.bsky.social & friends, he had me giggling the whole time.
Rthing It Up: An Oral History - Lightspeed Magazine
In 23762, the Interstellar Community of Planetary Systems began its campaign to add a new member: a distant, isolated planet called Rth. It would be an understatement to say that the annexation of Rth...
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May 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Great story by @genedoucette.bsky.social , but I recommend listening to it as narrated by the great @stefansecho.bsky.social & friends, he had me giggling the whole time.
Third-party merchants are "selling" copies of out-of-print editions of my books on Amazon in what is clearly money-laundering, and IDK what I can do about it.
May 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Third-party merchants are "selling" copies of out-of-print editions of my books on Amazon in what is clearly money-laundering, and IDK what I can do about it.
Thanks @jdnicoll.bsky.social for the mention
Into the Abyss: Five SFF Stories About Delivering Destruction
Unleashing chaos, maybe even apocalypse, intentionally or not...
reactormag.com/into-the-aby...
Unleashing chaos, maybe even apocalypse, intentionally or not...
reactormag.com/into-the-aby...
Into the Abyss: Five SFF Stories About Delivering Destruction - Reactor
Unleashing chaos, maybe even apocalypse, intentionally or not...
reactormag.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Thanks @jdnicoll.bsky.social for the mention
Reactor has a nice mention of The Apocalypse Seven. reactormag.com/into-the-aby...
Into the Abyss: Five SFF Stories About Delivering Destruction - Reactor
Unleashing chaos, maybe even apocalypse, intentionally or not...
reactormag.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Reactor has a nice mention of The Apocalypse Seven. reactormag.com/into-the-aby...