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Ryan Oakley

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Name: Ryan Oakley
Date registered: January 2, 2010
URL: http://thegrumpyowl.com/

Biography

Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) and has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap. He's a bit of a dick. His first novel will be published by EDGE Books in Fall 2011.

Latest posts

Van Gogh Painted Deep Math of Turbulence — February 22, 2012
Genetic Variants For Schizophrenia Found to Be Common — February 21, 2012
In the Bag: Technicolor Ultra Mall — February 19, 2012
Bespoke Boots — February 18, 2012
Smart Pills to Connect to Your Smartphone — February 16, 2012

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Feb 22

Van Gogh Painted Deep Math of Turbulence

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art

by Ryan Oakley

Van Gogh’s paintings have have been found to precisely depict the deep mathematics of air turbulence. Though other artists also have swirling patterns of air in their work, Van Gogh is the only one whose work shows Kolmogorov scaling in luminance probability distributions. And only in the art he painted during his psychotic episodes. BioEd Online says: …

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Welcome to The Grumpy Owl. I'm Ryan and I write this thing. I'm also an author. My début novel, Technicolor Ultra Mall, was published by EDGE Press in October 2011. Aside from that, I have job and a wife. I'm a bit of a reclusive weirdo but, if you want to contact me, you can do so through ryan (dot) oakley at gmail (dot) com.

PURCHASE

Technicolor Ultra Mall, is currently eligible for an Aurora Award (best novel.) If you'd like to register and vote, you can do so here.

Praise

"Ryan Oakley kicks all kinds of butt. This is the story Philip K. Dick would have written if he'd lived to today: over-the-top, incisively satirical, and packing a major wallop. The prose sings even as the story makes you squirm; underneath all the slickness and sickness there's a passionate human heart, beating so damn fast it warps space. Oakley is a supernova about to blow – a major new talent ready to burst on the scene – and with this, his first novel, he'll light up the entire sky."

-- Robert J. Sawyer
Hugo Award-winning author of HOMINDS
Nebula Award-winning author of THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT

"Reading Ryan Oakley's writing is like being lit-jacked. Once Oakley's forty-five caliber prose is aimed between your eyes, you'll never forget it."

--Minister Faust
Phillip K. Dick Prize Shortlisted author of THE COYOTE KINGS OF THE SPACE-AGE BACHELOR PAD
The Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award, Special Citation (Runner Up) Phillip K. Dick Award author of FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN

"Oakley isn't so much concerned with what science fiction has been, but rather where it can go. And, unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't just write from his head, but from his gut. His work somehow manages to be both unsettling and deeply absorbing."

--Jeff Lemire
Eisner-nominated Graphic novelist of the ESSEX COUNTY TRILOGY,
THE NOBODY,
SWEET TOOTH from Vertigo.
THE ATOM and the upcoming SUPERBOY series for DC Comics

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