Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used To Be - Softcover

Nayman, Ira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595521428 ISBN 13: 9780595521425

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

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 realityHow you, too, can become an Alternate Reality News Service reporterThe origin of the companyAnd much more! Just open the cover and start reading. It's time to accept that Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used to Be.

About this title

About the Author

Ira Nayman is an author, lecturer and dashing man about town. Les Pages aux Folles, his Web page, contains 25 years worth of political and social satire, as well as absurdist cartoons and samples of his script writing for film and television. He teaches New Media at Ryerson University, Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595521428
• ISBN 13: 9780595521425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176