Steven Popkes

• Jun-2026
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• Dec-2025
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One night with reporter Tamar Longren changes everything. Exposed to the world, gorilla Lethias becomes an overnight sensation -- and a political weapon. The Oregon Initiative would make his existence illegal. Religious zealot and presidential candid...

• Jun-2025
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LeRoy Parkin had a secret: a project to raise the intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and baboons to human levels. Some would say that wasn't a very high bar. Fifteen years after he began, plagues -- preventable but not prevente...

• Dec-2024
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Columbus' first voyage to find the Japans only finds a new and terrible world populated by monsters. A town situated deep in a simulated system, hiding from a destructive alien invasion. Five people wake on an station orbiting Venus. They h...

• Dec-2024
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Ira and Gray found the egg on an abandoned ferryboat. It was wrinkled, with smears of red and yellow, and bigger than a basketball. They weren't sure why it was there, only that it must have been left there on purpose.The next day, the egg had grown....

• Jul-2024
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In the ruins of Saint Louis, Lucio has been a Long Bottom Boy for as long as he can remember. He has scavenged. He has been hunted for food. He has eaten his fill of human prey. He has been both the abused and the abuser.He's been okay with this.One ...

• Jan-2024
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Tom nodded. Dan was sitting close to his right. Tom reached for his glass as if he'd forgotten he'd finished it, made a fist and backhanded Dan with all his strength. Dan fell back off his chair. Tom followed up the blow with a vicious kick to Dan's ...

• Jun-2023
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Jeremy DaFoe looks human enough. He farms soybeans and corn on his small farm. His wife Betty loves him. His best friend Buddy admires him. His enemy Luke plots revenge.     But Jeremy is an ancient being of incredible power trapp...

• Dec-2022
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Merle is homeless on Coney Island. He keeps remembering things from long, long ago.Harry Linden owns a failing parking garage and has to hire an alien to make ends meet.Tomas Coban is a retired dictator. He was never quite sure he had done those thin...

• Jun-2022
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• Jan-2022
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What if God is an alien who inhabits the body of a macaw? Young Ian finds out when his mother's nasty-tempered bird offers to cure her alcoholism if Ian will work for the alien.What follows is a career spanning hundreds of years and identities, as Ia...

• Jul-2021
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Divaloids -- performing software robots -- fill the world. They sing. They dance. They bring their audiences to their feet screaming for more. You can see them in concert or in the privacy of your home. Watch them at corporate functions or select pri...

• Dec-2020
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Plagues broke the world.In a violent new America infested with disease and mutated creatures, Michael, an eleven-year old orphan, and Jackie, a sophisticated, intelligent, articulate elephant, set out on a journey of discovery and survival through th...

• Oct-2020
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The Invader's ships didn't conquer--they destroyed. Those caught at the Connaught Range fought to the last.Connaught Range had a secret laboratory. When there was no hope, the soldiers, civilian researchers, and their families uploaded themselves int...

• Jun-2020
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Cindy Fiske hates her high school life from her vice cop father, Jake, to her biochemist mother, Anya. Of course, she runs away and into the waiting arms of Connie Samoa who runs a high price call girl ring. Then, Anya's boss starts sampling her secr...

• Dec-2019
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Jesus and his adopted son live in a small house in Higbee, Missouri and play cards with Satan. A sarcastic elephant and her boy search post-apocalyptic Tennessee for a home. A retired clerk smokes off-brand cigarettes and is transformed into an opera...

• May-2016
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Katelin is a witch flyer, one of the few able to ride a Stick with the power of her mind. She flies for the Boston Police Department in a world where any paranormal gift is rare, and supernatural abilities are treasured--and feared.David Sabado has o...

• 2002
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The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

• 1989
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Katelin is a witch flyer, one of the few able to ride a Stick with the power of her mind. She flies for the Boston Police Department in a world where any paranormal gift is rare, and supernatural abilities are treasured--and feared.David Sabado has o...