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.

"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

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"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

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"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