Al Steiner
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Al Steiner is the pseudonym of a prolific author of adult novels and shorter pieces.
He is a nine year paramedic who lives on the west coast of the United States. He has been writing short stories and attempting novels since high school. In the late 1990s he began posting erotic fiction to Usenet as a way of getting realistic, constructive criticism of his writing skills.
He has become famed in the Internet writing community for his intriguing premises, well-developed characters, exciting story-lines, and detailed research.
His most well-known works are the novels Doing It All Over, Aftermath, Greenies and A Perfect World, all of which are part of his Future Wars Universe. He has published over 50 pieces of writing in all, including shorts, novellas and novels and is currently publishing his second volume in the Intemperance series about the behind-the-scenes life of a successful rock band.
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[edit] Doing It All Over
Doing It All Over, first published online in 1999, is the story of a 32 year old paramedic, who wakes up one morning to find himself back as a 15 year old in 1982, with a chance to redo the crucial years of his life.
Many of the plot points from this story were similar to the short-lived 2002 WB television series Do Over, which aired three years after Steiner's story was published.
[edit] Aftermath
Aftermath tells the story of a small band of survivors after a large comet impacts on the Pacific Ocean. Tsunamis rebound across the coastlines of the world, wiping out most of the cities situated there and a large part of humanity. Those remaining must learn to endure not only the inhospitable conditions of the world that remains... but the dangers they face from each other.
[edit] A Perfect World
A Perfect World tells the tale of a police helicopter pilot named Ken Frazier who, shot in the course of duty in 2003, is cryogenically frozen at his wife's request and awakens in the year 2191 on the planet Mars.
In between Ken's "death" and his revival, humanity has colonised Mars and the Moon. A third World War has been fought in the early 21st century between China, Japan and India, and the rest of the world. After that war, the world has been divided between the American continents - the "Western Hemisphere Alliance" (or "WestHem") - and its Eastern equivalent ("EastHem"). WestHem is a highly corporate state, in which the major corporations effectively rule through their strong control over the apparent WestHem government. Mars, which was originally a WestHem colony, has fought a war of independence some fifty years previously, and is a de facto independent state.
Ken, meanwhile, finds a Martian society based on principles similar to democratic socialism, in which corporations are forbidden and workers are rewarded depending on the difficulty and necessity of their work. Sexual politics have reached an extremely liberated state, particularly now that cures for all known STDs have been found.
Meanwhile, WestHem has never accepted the loss of its formerly very-profitable colony on Mars. Using technology originally inadvertently discovered by Martian researchers (but subsequently suppressed), it builds a "lemondrop reactor" - a device which creates a wormhole in space using antimatter, and is therefore effectively a time machine - and prepares to send agents back in time to undo the Martian revolution before it ever happens.
[edit] Greenies
The story of Mars' successful effort to free itself from WestHem is told in Steiner's prequel story, Greenies, completed in August 2006.
[edit] Intemperance
Intemperance, the trials, tribulations, and debauchery of the fictional 1980s rock band Intemperance as they rise from the club scene to international fame; Intemperance II : Standing On Top (in progress).
