Ira Nayman & The Dance

Ira Nayman & The Dance By Angelique Fawns   Ira Nayman has a few claims to fame, one of which is being the editor of Amazing Stories, the very first science fiction magazine started in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback, from 2017 to 2020. He is a film producer, comedy writer, and has created a series of speculative fiction novels in the “Transdimensional Authority/Multiverse” series.  One of his most recent projects is editing an anthology called The Dance, which focuses on how the choices you make influence your life. Submission close for this speculative short story collection on August 1st. I sat down with this fellow Canadian creator to learn more.  AF: You started your career with comedy and then veered in the dark world of speculative fiction. How did that happen? IN: Generally, I had been a fan of speculative fiction since I was a kid, so combining it with humor was a natural thing for me to do. Specifically, I have a website called Les Pages aux Folles which features weekly social and political satire. About five years into the project, I thought it would be a good idea to collect some of the writing in print. The first collection, No Public Figure Too Big, No Personal Foible Too Small was a general collection of articles that got no appreciable public notice or readership. Around that time, one of the features that emerged from the website was the Alternate Reality News Service (ARNS), which sends reporters into other universes and has them write about what they find there. When I prepared to publish a second collection of pieces from the website, I decided to go with ARNS articles. The first book was called Alternate Reality Ain’t What It Used To Be. I have now self-published thirteen books in the...
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