Al Steiner: Stories

A Story in the Greenies/A Perfect World Universe
A riveting story that takes place on Mars, a corporate planet controlled by powerful firms on Earth. Although humans, citizens of Mars are treated as a lower class race. The wind of change brings a new Governor, Laura Whiting, who will lead the Martian revolution. What will happen next to this fascinating society? Will they succeed to live in a world free of corporate puppeteers?

A Story in the Greenies/A Perfect World Universe
1300 years after the Martian Revolution, mankind has developed interstellar travel and colonized surrounding star systems. Back on Earth, however, those who were left behind live squalid, superstitious lives. A new story from me, it takes place in an updated version of the Greenies/A Perfect World universe.

A story about neighbors, good and bad... and some that are the very best. And then there's Maggie, who espouses religion while she fucks her neighbor and folds his laundry.

A man having marital troubles finds himself vacationing alone in Hawaii as part of a workplace tourgroup. While there, he and a coworker visit the famous landmark. The rest is history.

This is a piece of autobiographical fiction about my time as a paramedic working in one of the worst neighborhoods in my region. Like Eric Townsend in the story, I worked this assignment because I needed a particular schedule, and like Eric, I experienced a profound epiphany in the squalor. The first of hopefully twenty or so chapters, though the Intemperance novels are still my primary priority so posting will not be as frequent.

Intemperance
A few people have expressed interest in how I keep track of all the characters in the Intemperance story. The answer is the character sheet that contains the names, birth years, and basic background of all characters that require a backstory of some kind. For those that are interested, I post it here. There are a few in there from Book VIII, but nothing that will be a spoiler. Not all characters were worked up and some details were changed from my original vision of them.

Intemperance
The trials, tribulations, and debauchery of the fictional 1980s rock band Intemperance as they rise from the club scene to international fame.

Intemperance
INTEMPERANCE X is the tenth and final novel in the main Intemperance series. As the band headlines its biggest moment yet, decades of music, loyalty, and hard-earned love converge on one unforgettable night—where everything they’ve built is tested in front of the world.

Intemperance
The continuing adventures of Jake Kingsley, Matt Tisdale, Nerdly Archer, and the other members of the rock band Intemperance. Now that they are big successes, pulling in millions of dollars and known everywhere as the band that knows how to rock, how will they handle their success? This is not a stand-alone novel. If you haven't read the first Intemperance you will not know what is going on in this one.

Intemperance
The long awaited third book in the Intemperance series. Celia, Jake, Nerdly, and Pauline form KVA Records to independently record and release solo albums. They are hampered, however, by a lack of backing musicians for their efforts, have no recording studio to work in, and, even if this can be overcome, will still have to deal with the record companies in order for their final efforts to be heard.