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I Was Donald Trump's Left Arm Rest
A Cosmic Comedy of Errors Where Silicon Valley Meets the Twilight Zone
What if every tech billionaire, celebrity, political figure who ever made you question the nature of reality was actually an interdimensional civil servant who got spectacularly lost in their assignment?
A question answered in this collection of stories that not only make you laugh, they also make you feel slightly less insane for living in a world that increasingly resembles science fiction written by a committee.
Six interconnected tales of galactic bureaucratic incompetence that would make Kafka weep with laughter. Reincarnation isn't spiritual here — it's administrative. A dying hermit becomes Trump's left armrest through pure cosmic spite. Elon Musk is an alien botanist whose mission to save his planet's endangered plant life accidentally creates an entire human tech revolution. Mark Zuckerberg? An anthropologist from a telepathic interstellar species trying to understand human social bonding who inadvertently weaponizes loneliness.
Each story operates as both razor-sharp satire and genuinely inventive science fiction, employing the precision of Douglas Adams with the sociological insight of a Kurt Vonnegut. The collection suggests that our most bewildering cultural phenomena —social media addiction, the attention economy, billionaire space races — might actually make perfect sense if viewed as the unintended consequences of well-meaning aliens who fundamentally misunderstand human psychology.
However, these aren't cheap shots at easy targets but carefully constructed thought experiments that use absurdist premises to illuminate genuine truths about power, technology, and human nature. The Kardashians become consciousness-harvesting entities who transcend individual identity to become pure, self-sustaining attention. Jeff Bezos transforms into a middle manager from the Department of Universal Package Delivery who accidentally creates a post-scarcity civilization while testing interdimensional shipping protocols.
This is speculative fiction that speculates on our present rather than our future, using the genre's capacity for metaphor to examine how we've arrived at a reality so surreal that it demands paranormal explanation. The humour emerges not from ridicule but from recognition—the terrifying comedy of realizing that alien intervention might be the most rational explanation for contemporary civilization.
With prose full of wit while maintaining genuine emotional depth, the stories offer something rarer than mere they provide the cathartic relief of finally having our collective bewilderment at modern existence properly articulated.
*The universe, it turns out, has a sense of humour. It's just not necessarily a good one. *
What if every tech billionaire, celebrity, political figure who ever made you question the nature of reality was actually an interdimensional civil servant who got spectacularly lost in their assignment?
A question answered in this collection of stories that not only make you laugh, they also make you feel slightly less insane for living in a world that increasingly resembles science fiction written by a committee.
Six interconnected tales of galactic bureaucratic incompetence that would make Kafka weep with laughter. Reincarnation isn't spiritual here — it's administrative. A dying hermit becomes Trump's left armrest through pure cosmic spite. Elon Musk is an alien botanist whose mission to save his planet's endangered plant life accidentally creates an entire human tech revolution. Mark Zuckerberg? An anthropologist from a telepathic interstellar species trying to understand human social bonding who inadvertently weaponizes loneliness.
Each story operates as both razor-sharp satire and genuinely inventive science fiction, employing the precision of Douglas Adams with the sociological insight of a Kurt Vonnegut. The collection suggests that our most bewildering cultural phenomena —social media addiction, the attention economy, billionaire space races — might actually make perfect sense if viewed as the unintended consequences of well-meaning aliens who fundamentally misunderstand human psychology.
However, these aren't cheap shots at easy targets but carefully constructed thought experiments that use absurdist premises to illuminate genuine truths about power, technology, and human nature. The Kardashians become consciousness-harvesting entities who transcend individual identity to become pure, self-sustaining attention. Jeff Bezos transforms into a middle manager from the Department of Universal Package Delivery who accidentally creates a post-scarcity civilization while testing interdimensional shipping protocols.
This is speculative fiction that speculates on our present rather than our future, using the genre's capacity for metaphor to examine how we've arrived at a reality so surreal that it demands paranormal explanation. The humour emerges not from ridicule but from recognition—the terrifying comedy of realizing that alien intervention might be the most rational explanation for contemporary civilization.
With prose full of wit while maintaining genuine emotional depth, the stories offer something rarer than mere they provide the cathartic relief of finally having our collective bewilderment at modern existence properly articulated.
*The universe, it turns out, has a sense of humour. It's just not necessarily a good one. *
129 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 3, 2025
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February 27, 2026
4⭐️
This is a fascinating short story collection of sci fi/speculative fiction that absolutely skewers popular US culture with wickedly accurate portrayals of big names as alien interlopers hiding among us. Who hasn’t heard a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates brought alien technology to Windows, or that COVID-19 was a planned attack? Who hasn’t questioned the humanity of the Kardashians?
I found the writing incredibly smart, the viewpoints compelling and the characters endlessly entertaining. While the title admittedly confused me at the outset, I stuck with the book long enough to discover just how very clever this author is - and how much I can enjoy this genre of storytelling.
High praise! Recommended for older readers than I saw on Amazon however, definitely an adult book for vocabulary if not also for cultural and social context.
Thank you to the author for the free copy which I received via Booksprout in exchange for my honest review.
This is a fascinating short story collection of sci fi/speculative fiction that absolutely skewers popular US culture with wickedly accurate portrayals of big names as alien interlopers hiding among us. Who hasn’t heard a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates brought alien technology to Windows, or that COVID-19 was a planned attack? Who hasn’t questioned the humanity of the Kardashians?
I found the writing incredibly smart, the viewpoints compelling and the characters endlessly entertaining. While the title admittedly confused me at the outset, I stuck with the book long enough to discover just how very clever this author is - and how much I can enjoy this genre of storytelling.
High praise! Recommended for older readers than I saw on Amazon however, definitely an adult book for vocabulary if not also for cultural and social context.
Thank you to the author for the free copy which I received via Booksprout in exchange for my honest review.
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