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• Why do We Tell Stories?

  by Ira Nayman December 26, 2014
  Why do we tell stories?   I think there is merit to the idea that stories gave our ancient ancestors an evolutionary advantage. The ape that could imagine (tell himself a story) that there was a lion in wait behind a large rock was more likely to take measures (ie: being prepared to defend hi...
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• Where I’m Coming From 3: Son of The Wherening

  by Ira Nayman December 17, 2014
  A couple of years ago, I read a column (I believe in Salon, but I haven’t been able to find it since) about the success of Hugh Howey’s Wool, which was a self-published Internet sensation before it was taken up by a traditional publisher. The article looked at all of the traditional ways...
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• Where I’m Coming From 2: The Wherening

  by Ira Nayman December 10, 2014
  Humourous science fiction is a hard sell. Over the last 20 or 30 years, the genre has become increasingly conservative, both in content and style. I suspect that this has something to do with the oft discussed (at cons I’ve been to over the last few years) aging of science fiction’s read...

• Where I'm Coming From

  by Ira Nayman December 5, 2014
  I decided I wanted to devote my life to writing humour when I was eight years old. I have a memory of walking through the parking lot of my elementary school and thinking that that is what I wanted to do. The details may be fuzzy: was it really in the parking lot of my school? Was I really eight, or...