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Ira Nayman

Author Biography

Ira Nayman is profilic. Proficlic. Proclif - he writes a lot.

He has self-published eleven collections of articles written by the tireless staff of the Alternate Reality News Service. Five contain news, reviews, interviews, and anything else you might expect to find in your daily newspaper (Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used To Be, What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children's Toys, Luna for the Lunies!, The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Mutant Technologies and Futures in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear). The series also contains two collections of humourous science fiction advice columns: The Alternate Reality News Service's Guide to Love, Sex and Robots and What the Hell Were You Thinking? Good Advice for people who make bad decisions. The series is rounded out by three collections of reports from a universe where Vesampucceri is the world's leading idiotocracy (rule by the stupidest people): ARNS and the Man, E Deplorables Unum and Angels of Our Bitter Nature. The most recent book collects the three Vesampucceri volumes in one; it is called Idiotocracy for Dummies. All but the first and most recent books are available on Smashwords. (They are also available in print, for those of you who have a fetish for paper...)

New Alternate Reality News Service stories appear regularly on Ira's Web site: Les Pages aux Folles. These include two advice columns: Ask Amritsar (about love and romance and technology) and Ask the Tech Answer Guy (about anything to do with technology except love and romance). Readers are encouraged to submit their own questions for the advice columns. Les Pages aux Folles also contains topical political and social satire and surreal cartoons.

The Weight of Information, the pilot for a radio series based on Alternate Reality News Service articles, can be heard on YouTube; listen to Part One or Part Two.

Ira has also written eight Transdimensional Authority novels, six of which have been published by Elsewhen Press: Welcome to the Multiverse (Sorry for the Inconvenience); You Can't Kill the Multiverse (But You Can Mess With its Head); Random Dingoes; It's Just the Chronosphere Unfolding as It Should; The Multiverse is a Nice Place to Visit, But I Wouldn't Want to Live There; and, Good Intentions: The Multiverse Refugees Trilogy: First Pie in the Face. They follow the adventures of Transdimensional Authority Investigators or Time Agency Agents. If you're somewhere (or somewhen) you shouldn't be, doing something naughty, they find you, stop you and take you back to where you belong.

Fans of Ira Nayman’s science fiction writing are encouraged to check Les Pages aux Folles periodically for news about the availability of these and future stories.

Where to find Ira Nayman online

Series

The Alternate Reality News Service
Collections of Alternate Reality News Service news, reviews, interviews, advice columns and, yes, even obituaries. After all, people in other universes die, too...

Books

Angels of Our Bitter Nature
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 9. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 72,730. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
Two and a half years into the presidency of Ronald McDruhitmumpf the scandals kind of meld together into a political scientist's worst nightmare. Or best research subject... Angels of Our Bitter Nature is the final book in the Vesampucceri trilogy, which includes ARNS and the Man and E Deplorables Unum. Collect the whole set!
E Deplorables Unum
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 8. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 68,720. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
"Nobody said reporting from Earth Prime 1-6-7-1-8-2 dash psi, where the United States of Vesampucceri is the world's leading idiotocracy, was going to be easy." E Deplorables Unum is the second book in Ira Nayman's Alternate Reality News Service Vesampucceri trilogy - collect the whole set!
ARNS and the Man
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 7. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 71,960. Language: English. Published: April 1, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Science fiction » General
The Alternate Reality News Service sends reporters to other dimensions and has them write news articles about what they find there. In ARNS and the Man, journalists focus on the United States of Vesampucceri, the world's foremost idiotocracy (government by of the stupidest, by the stupidest, for the stupidest). "Amusing, sardonic political and social satire..." John Shirley
Futures in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 6. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 69,680. Language: English. Published: March 14, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Science fiction » General
The seventh collection of Alternate Reality News Service articles. The series has been described as "A science fiction version of The Onion."
What the Hell Were You Thinking?: Good Advice for People Who Make Bad Decisions
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 5. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 68,580. Language: English. Published: May 15, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
The sixth collection of Alternate Reality News Service articles is the second to feature the advice columns of Amritsar and The Tech Answer Guy. This humourous science fiction journalism may not be as good as your mom's chicken soup, but at least it won't nag you to tell it when you're going to get married!
What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children's Toys
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 1. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 72,630. Language: English. Published: March 4, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Science fiction » General
The second collection of Alternate Reality News Service articles. Big floating heads! Conscious cars that tell their owners when the mechanic from the garage down the street is ripping them off! Women suing General Motors for paternity! Now, more than ever, if you don't like this reality, try another one!
The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Mutant Technologies
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 67,810. Language: English. Published: June 23, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
The Alternate Reality News Service is proud to announce the publication of The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Mutant Technologies, its latest collection of paper cutting edge journalism! Oww! Better put some disinfectant on that reportage!
The Alternate Reality News Service's Guide to Love, Sex and Robots
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 68,040. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
When the craziness of the modern world affects your relationship with your life mate, your offspring, your other family members, your auto mechanic or your AI-enhanced toaster oven, it can be hard to know what to do. When relationships get so confusing that the federal tax code starts to make sense, who can you turn to for help? The Alternate Reality News Service’s advice columnists, of course.
Luna for the Lunies!
Series: The Alternate Reality News Service, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 72,070. Language: English. Published: January 24, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Luna for the Lunies! is the third collection of Alternate Reality News Service stories. Robots who rue their consciousness! Alien invasions foiled by bureaucrats! A successful conclusion to the war on squirrels! Humorous science fiction journalism has never been so...so...science fictiony!