A. L. Sirois
Bio: A.L. Sirois cites creative influences as diverse as Firesign Theatre, the Beatles, Pieter Brueghel, Mervyn Peake, H. G. Wells, and Frank Zappa. An artist as well as a writer (and rock drummer), he has done hundreds of illustrations, including drawings for Lullaby Angel, a children's book written by his wife, Paula, and for Penguin Island, a children's book of his own. Two of his short stories made the Top 25 in Eternity's Best of the Web '98 contest--more than any other author. The stories March 11 1936, 5:30 AM and As Bad As It Gets, originally published in Deep Outside SFFH, each received Nebula recommendations. His first novel was Blood Relations, and its sequel is Blind Ambitions. His collection The Beginnings of Forever (Clocktower Books) includes the Pushcart Prize-nominated story In the Conservatory, and other stories that have appeared in Amazing Stories and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. His two most recent books are a parapsychological thriller, Detonator (both published by Clocktower Books), and Boss Tweed's Dinosaurs, a Young Adult novel.
A.L. Sirois lives in Doylestown, PA with his wife Paula and daughter Kira. His son Daniel lives in New York City, where he attends NYU.
Al's career in the arts began in the 1970s, with a stint as assistant to well-known comic-book artist Wallace "Wally" Wood. Since then, Al has worked in many of the graphic arts, including rotogravure, book and magazine illustration, educational software, online advertising, CD production, and animation. Recently he has discovered a love for teaching, and conducts drawing, cartooning, and painting classes under the auspices of a number of local arts organizations. Al is becoming well known as a landscape painter in Bucks County, PA.
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Stress Management for Time Travelers [MultiFormat]
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We are not always the same person because our feelings and motivations keep changing who we are from day to day. One day we are driven by a search for hidden knowledge, another day for riches, another day for revenge. What if these separate selves all met in the same room at the same exact moment? 2002
Words: 8500 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Working Quantum Consciousness [MultiFormat]
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Immortality may yet be within reach. As a structural element in the new quantum mechanics view of intelligence and the universe, microtubules look like hexagonal lattices of the protein tubulin, arranged cylindrically. Through mechanisms not yet fully understood, these cylindrical lattices self-assemble, extending axons and dendrites and forming synaptic connections, which they then regulate and maintain. A. L. Sirois spells it all out for us in this informative and entertaining article. 2003
Words: 1974 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Technology/Science
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This Chicken Outfit [MultiFormat]
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They were not the most bizarre extraterrestrial race encountered by man, but they were the silliest, complete with wattles and red crests. Their every movement screamed GIANT CHICKEN. Even Maureen the receptionist, after her initial shock at the aliens' abrupt appearance out of the elevator had passed, recovered quickly. Nipu had heard her whisper "I didn't know it was Halloween!" Then Nipu took a tranquilizer to overcome her aversions and listened as Barry began to pitch the aliens. They were a... more info>> 2003
Words: 5000 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Comet Doom [MultiFormat]
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Rali the galactic grifter rolls through the seedy inns and alleys of one alien city after another leaving a trail of deception and theft. Then he meets the sorcerer Xaglun and his seductive niece, and in no time the fate of the entire world is in the scheming hands of these three and an elemental demon they summon from the depths of space and time. 2003
Words: 7000 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Dearly Departed [MultiFormat]
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What happens when you mix computer science and a lovelorn ghost? Science fiction humorist A. L. Sirois explores the possibilities--or implausibilities. Tom Walsh is a tech nerd whose last fling was a three month lust fest with Mary Ellen, whose life was soon claimed by a car accident. Several years later, Tom is putting the make on his boss's sister Joan, when Mary Ellen's ghost inopportunely shows up. "How have you been?" he asks awkwardly after the initial shock. "Dead," she replies, and it's ... more info>> 2003
Words: 8000 - Reading Time: 22-32 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Detonator [MultiFormat]
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It's 1979. Aspiring rock musician Ken Orlando has something he doesn't want: the power to kill people with his mind. Government agents want to send him to Iran to help rescue the hostages, and his best friend is having an affair with his girl. It's hard for Ken to believe it all started with a piece of toast.... In Detonator, A. L. Sirois takes us on a wild, darkly comic ride through history has it could have been--or may have been, for all we know--with a secret Government project involving exp... more info>> 2002
Words: 62000 - Reading Time: 177-248 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Beginnings of Forever [MultiFormat]
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In this first-rate SF anthology by A. L. Sirois: A lonely man captures a baby raincloud; a young reporter learns that the gift of ESP is a double-edged sword; Johann Sebastian Bach goes to the moon; a woman is snowbound with an unseen antagonist that seems to know her innermost thoughts; Hell is reorganized; a bizarre creature made of books menaces a clerk in a porn store, and an earthquake survivor is terrorized by a visitor from the center of the earth. Welcome to The Beginnings of Forever, a ... more info>> 2000
Words: 70000 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Blind Ambitions [MultiFormat]
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In Blind Ambitions, the sequel to A. L. Sirois's brilliant far-future novel Blood Relations, Arrizida "Zida" Yokoi, a nineteen-year-old telepath aboard the starship Haltija, has arrived at the mysterious lost colony world, Lennon. Before she realizes it, however, Zida and her crewmates find themselves the victims of a plot hatched years earlier on Earth. They are swept up into violence, tragedy and madness. Now, with the main body of the expedition forced to return to Earth, Zida has elected to ... more info>> 2000
Words: 67000 - Reading Time: 191-268 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Blood Relations (First of Two Novels) [MultiFormat]
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Arrizida Yokoi is a nineteen-year-old telepath assigned to the Implementation sabership Haltija, whose historic mission to the lost colony world Lennon is the first to reach that planet in 400 years. Zida and her crewmates discover a civilization that has struggled to survive on a cold, metal-poor world--and has, perhaps, learned the secret of immortality. But someone aboard Haltija doesn't want that secret returned to Earth--and is willing to commit murder to prevent it. Before she realizes it,... more info>> 2000
Words: 78000 - Reading Time: 222-312 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Fausta Carbajal Goes To Mars [MultiFormat]
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Fausta is a young woman with dreams of going into space, but she is thwarted by the rigid and unimaginative men in her life--with tragic and ironic consequences that play out in this wrenching story. 2002
Words: 5000 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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