by Ira Nayman
Elsewhen Press
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LiGa™
Sanem Ozdural
Have YOU had your invitation yet?
Literary science fiction, LiGa™ tells of a game in which the players are, literally, gambling with their lives. Sanem Ozdural’s debut novel is set in a near-future where a secretive organisation has developed technology to transfer the regenerative power of a body’s cells from one person to another, conferring extended or even indefinite life expectancy. Access is limited to those invited to play.
At once fantastic, yet credible, the familiarity of the contemporary setting gives a definite slipstream feel to Sanem’s debut novel, providing a fascinating insight into the motivation of those characters who win the possibility of virtual immortality and of those who will lose some of their life expectancy.
epub, kindle, paperback (400pp)
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The Lost Men, an allegory
David Colón
A world where the human population has been decimated. For the few remaining people, the only human contact is their counsel, a mentor who guides them to find ‘the one’, their life mate as decreed by Fate. The only threats to this stable, if sparse, existence are the ‘lost men’ - mindless murderers, living outside the confines of counsel and Fate.
Is Fate a real force, or is it totally imagined, an arbitrary convention, a product of mankind’s self-destructive tendency? In this allegorical tale, David Colón uses an alternate near-future to explore the boundaries of the human condition and the extent to which we are prepared to surrender our capacity for decisions and self-determination in the face of a very personally directed and apparently benevolent, authoritarianism. Is it our responsibility to rebuke inherited ‘wisdom’ for the sake of envisioning and manifesting our own will?
epub, kindle, paperback (192pp)
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Entanglement
Douglas Thompson
Best described as philosophical science fiction, Entanglement explores our assumptions about such constants as death, birth, sex and conflict, as the characters in the story explore distant worlds and the intelligent life that lives there.
Entanglement is simultaneously a novel and a series of short stories: 24 worlds, 24 chapters, 24 stories; each one another step on mankind’s journey outwards to the stars and inwards to man’s own psyche. Yet the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts; the synergy of the episodes results in an overarching story arc that tells us more about ourselves than about the rest of the universe.
epub, kindle, paperback (336pp)
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[Re]Awakenings
an anthology of new Speculative Fiction
• Alison Buck • Neil Faarid •
• Gingerlily • Robin Moran •
• PR Pope • Alexander Skye •
• Peter Wolfe •
[Re]Awakenings are the starting points for life-changing experiences; a new plane of existence, an alternate reality or cyber-reality. This genre-spanning anthology of new speculative fiction explores that theme with a spectrum of tales, from science fiction to fantasy to paranormal; in styles from clinically serious to joyfully silly.
All of life is within these pages, from birth to death (and in some cases beyond). In all of these stories, most of them specifically written for this anthology, the short story format has been used to great effect. If you haven’t already heard of some of these authors, you soon will as they are undoubtedly destined to become future stars in the speculative fiction firmament.
Remember, you read them here first!
epub, kindle, paperback(288pp)
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Queens of Antares
Bloodline returned
Volume 1 of the Bloodline Trilogy
PR Pope
What would you do if you found out your dotty old Gran wasn’t from Surrey after all, but from a planet 600 light years away across the galaxy? Not only that, but she’s really an exiled Princess from a Royal family that has been virtually wiped out by a tyrannical usurper. Would you believe it? That’s the question being asked by Caroline, Alex and Emily Wright. But you might find it easier to believe, if you were actually standing on that self-same planet looking into a sky with two suns. That’s the situation in which Caroline, Alex and Emily find themselves when they accidentally get transported across the galaxy. Would you join the fight for freedom against the tyrant, if that was the only way to get back home to Earth? You now understand the dilemma facing them. What would you do?
epub, kindle, paperback (224pp)
visit www.queensofantares.co.uk
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Blue Friday
Mike French
Dystopian science fiction, Blue Friday tells of a future where many live in fear of the Family Protection Agency, a special police division enforcing strict legislation introduced to protect the family unit. Combining dark humour with a nightmare vision of the future, Mike French follows in the tradition of great satirists such as Jonathan Swift. Thoughtful, while at the same time prompting a wry smile in the reader, it reverses the usual perception of a future regime driven by productivity and industrial output at the expense of family, demonstrating that the converse may be no better.
epub, kindle, paperback (192pp)
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The Royal Sorceress
Christopher Nuttall
1830, in an alternate Britain where the ‘scientific’ principles of magic, discovered 60 years previoulsy, allowed the British to prevent American Independence. The ageing Royal Sorcerer, Master Thomas, must find a successor: a Master of all the known magical powers. There’s only 1 candidate, who has displayed such a talent from an early age. A candidate perfect in all ways but one: the Royal College of Sorcerers has never admitted a girl before.
epub, kindle, paperback (480pp)
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About the Author
by IRA NAYMAN, Alternate Reality News Service
In his past lives, Ira Nayman was, among other things: a cave painter whose art was not appreciated in his lifetime; several nameless peasants who died before their 20th birthday during the Dark Ages; a toenail fungus specialist in the court of Louis XIV; and Alan Turing’s scullery maid.
In his current incarnation, Ira is the creator of Les Pages aux Folles, a Web site of political and social satire that was 10 years old in September 2012. (Three collections of Alternate Reality News Service (ARNS) stories (Alternate Reality Ain’t What It Used To Be, What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children’s Toys and Luna for the Lunies!) which originally appeared on the Web site have been self-published in print. Two new volumes of ARNS stories – The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Market Lateralization and The Alternate Reality News Service’s Guide To Sex, Love and Robots will be published in 2013. Probably. Hopefully. 2014 at the latest. Ira has produced the pilot for a radio series based on stories from the first two ARNS books; “The Weight of Information, Episode One” can be heard on YouTube.
Ira has also written a series of stories that take place in a universe where matter at all levels of organization has become conscious. They feature Antonio Van der Whall, object psychologist. To date, four of these stories have been sold. Several other stories in the series are currently awaiting editorial decisions at various publications.
Ira’s Web Goddess tells him he should make more of the fact that he won the 2010 Jonathan Swift Satire Writing Contest. So, Ira won the 2010 Jonathan
Swift Satire Writing Contest.
In another life (but still within this incarnation) Ira has a Masters degree in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research which was conducted entirely online. He also has a PhD in Communications from McGill University. Ira taught New Media part-time at Ryerson University for five years.
Whoever created the Karmic wheel has a lot to answer for…