Resume

• 1997

  Writer with a day job.

  Dave

  D'Alessio

  University of Connecticut

  Stamford Regional Campus

  Associate Professor

  University of Connecticut

  Real Neat Blog Award

  Sidewise Award finalist

  short fiction

  The Sidewise Award is given to the best short story and novel in the genre of Alternative History. My story The Twenty-Year Reich from the anthology Altered Europa (M. Ingham

  Ed.) is one of four finalists in the short fiction category.

• 1974

  BS

  BS

  MS

  \"Nerd\" is properly spelled \"knurd.\" \"It's \"drunk\" spelled backwards.

  Communication

  Chemistry

  Communication

  Alpha Phi Omega

  Polytechnic (newspaper)

  Unicorn (humor magazine)

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Public Speaking

  Teaching

  Data Analysis

  Higher Education

  Research

  Rains of Venus

  During the terraforming of Venus it will rain carbon dioxide for a hundred years...

  Rains of Venus

  What do you hear in the last moments of your life?

  The Ghost of Laika

  Another yarn from the world of The American Revolution: We Lose.

  One Grand Day

  What if Frankenstein was a thinly-disguised true story?

  Godwin

  or

  The Modern Prometheus

  Another short short (flash) fiction. Posted one day only!

  The Barnstormer

  The Merit of One Gold Piece

  Pulp/noir piece. Much fun to write.

  Old Money

  Old Blood

  An endless song that becomes the soundtrack to generations of rebellions.

  Imperfectum

  In the anthology Forbidden: Stories of Repression

  Restriction

  and Rebellion

  Border Skirmish

  Just how far can a staff

  a fancy diaper

  and a crock of the World’s Finest Yak Butter carry you? If you’re an ex-monk named Tamosan Acorn

  they can take you all the way around the world if they have to. He might have grown up in the monastery at the top of the Mountain of Enlightenment

  but now he’s been pushed out of the nest to crash or fly. Tamosan’s place under the sun is out there somewhere

  if only he can find it – and if he knows what it is when he gets there…\n\nThe Yak Butter Diaries is a gentle

  whimsical fantasy set in a world not very much but at the same time too much like our own. Join Tamosan

  his friend Singhan

  and his crock of butter on their long day’s journey into life.

  The Yak Butter Diaries

  Humorous horror. (I guess that's a thing.)

  Dunking for Dollars

  It's out now!

  The Thirty Year Reich

  Okay

  in a way

  the dragon can be the good guy...

  A Bad Knight's Work

  Got paid :p

  Old Money

  Old Blood

  “Dead Men Tell Tales

  ” by Dave D’Alessio is a fast

  fun adventure involving a private investigator in the future

  on the moon. This sat squarely with me

  as I write a SF Mystery set in the future with a P.I. too. So while much of the story felt familiar to me

  so much was fresh and fun. It was pulpy

  but also deliciously dark. There’s tech jargon and the feeling of verisimilitude doesn’t come for a little bit into the story. It’s like being on the moon. One has to adjust to the gravity or lack thereof. Yet

  once you have your feet under you. You can go! This story does exactly that. The story reads like so much pulp noir

  but transported to the futuristic setting. I liked the protagonist

  Arbogast

  and I also like how D’Alessio worldbuilds in such a short range of words.

  Dead Men tell Tales

  Flash fiction

  Ocean's Eleven

  Alison McBain (Ed.)

  You Get What You Pay For

  A Modest Proposal

  The Big Blow-up

  My short story from Every Day Fiction got picked up in audio as well.

  The Last Man on Earth

  Analysis of Japanese anime and manga from my perspective as a writer and also as a trained animator. Weekly technical posts on Mondays; additional relevant and irrelevant material if and when I feel like it.

  D'Alessio