…grew up in many American regions: California, the desert Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, the Deep South. He now lives in Massachusetts. His first love was biology and he earned his MS in Neurophysiology at the University of Missouri. Times being what they were, he became a software engineer. In recent years he has built avionics for planes and rockets.
It supports the writing habit.
He is best known for his short stories. “The Color Winter” was a finalist for the Nebula Award. “The Secret Lives of Fairy Tales,” reprinted here at BVC, was first published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
He’s published several novels beginning with Caliban Landing (Congdon and Weed, 1988) and Slow Lightning (Tor, 1991), both of which dealt with the complexities of alien contact. His approach is varied. Welcome to Witchlandia (BVC, 2016) is a paranormal police procedural. God’s Country involves the collision of drugs, religion, and science. His first story collection, Simple Things (BVC, 2019), handles all sorts of things.
A Free Short Story
by Steven Popkes
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Emperor Thomas had heard about Po and Ho long before he met them. Not that he begrudged two scam artists a living. He liked the Salt Dodge and the False Gumdrop as much as anyone and had a good laugh on how they had modified the Glam and took everything the Widow Stein owned, right down to her porcelain teeth. But all good things come to an end and their end was in sight when the local magistrate hauled them up in front of the Emperor.
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by Steven Popkes
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-954-8
A BVC Original
Dot 1.0, a performing software robot, does as she is told.
Dot 2.0 has other ideas.
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by Steven Popkes
$4.99
ISBN 978-1-61138-949-4
A BVC Original
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 the post-apocalyptic ruins.
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by Steven Popkes
$6.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-901-2
A BVC Original
If God were a pill, would you take it?
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Collected Stories
by Steven Popkes
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-858-9
Simple Things, where stories are anything but simple.
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by Steven Popkes
$2.99
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-606-6
A BVC Original
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 overcome mental illness to become one of the finest pianists in the country.
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by Steven Popkes
$1.99 (Novella)
ISBN 978-1-61138-918-0
A BVC Original
They successfully evaded the Invaders and the monsters of their own mind to find some kind of peace.
That’s over. The Dragon is coming.
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Edited by Shannon Page
$3.99 (Anthology)
ISBN 978-1-61138-938-8
A BVC Original
Cozy up by the fire for a little holiday cheer…or chill!
Nine holiday stories to delight, chill, cheer, or frighten you on a cold winter’s night.
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel “A Very Wary Christmas”
Alma Alexander “The One About the Founding (1918)”
Irene Radford “A Daffy Holiday”
Patricia Rice “Devil and the Deep Blue C”
Paul S. Piper “The Lights”
Shannon Page “The Longest Night of the Year”
Steven Popkes “Two Rivers”
Jill Zeller “Holiday in Hades”
Jennifer Stevenson “Solstice”
