Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used to Be - Nayman, Ira
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Step into new worlds and read news dispatches from the Alternate Reality News Service, which regularly gets the scoop on The Associated Press, Reuters and the rest of the competition. In a series of articles written by the wire service's handpicked reporters, you'll read satirical reports that give glimpses into the relationship between humanity, technology and Robert Novak's eyebrows. Who would have ever thought that an intelligent undershirt could be the key witness in a murder trial? Or that a man could possibly be sued by his lover for not lying about himself online? Or that a computer…mehr

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Step into new worlds and read news dispatches from the Alternate Reality News Service, which regularly gets the scoop on The Associated Press, Reuters and the rest of the competition. In a series of articles written by the wire service's handpicked reporters, you'll read satirical reports that give glimpses into the relationship between humanity, technology and Robert Novak's eyebrows. Who would have ever thought that an intelligent undershirt could be the key witness in a murder trial? Or that a man could possibly be sued by his lover for not lying about himself online? Or that a computer chip could be implanted into the brains of criminals so that every time they thought about committing a heinous deed, they sang a show tune? If this is all news to you, then you must not be a subscriber. By changing that, you can read about all the above and more, including: How journalists can be retrieved from an alternate reality How you, too, can become an Alternate Reality News Service reporter The origin of the company And much more! Just open the cover and start reading. It's time to accept that Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used to Be.
Autorenporträt
Ira Nayman, a humour writer who stumbled into speculative fiction around twenty years ago and decided to stick around, is the author of eight novels, most recently The Ugly Truth, the final book in the Multiverse Refugees trilogy. Two dozen of his short stories have been published, most recently "Girls Rule the Cyberpunk World!" in Brave New Girls 7 and "ePik Flayl Creates the Wor(l)d... Again" in Dreaming the God. Les Pages aux Folles, Ira's website of political and social satire, has been updated weekly for over twenty years.Ira was the editor of Amazing Stories magazine for three years. The Dance is the first anthology he has edited.