Böcker av Steven Popkes

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 trapped in Nuthatch County. His presence has shaped its body and soul for thousands of years. The people, plants, and geology revolve around him. Old resentments, historical wrongs, and past social pressures have built over the years like tectonic forces. The time has come for change.Some in the County want it to be violent. They may get their wish.

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 Ian struggles to save at least some of humanity from environmental disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, and lost species. He gets used to lots of dying.Is a terraformed Venus full of dinosaurs worth it?

Dot 1.0 is a performing software robot that can bring any audience to its feet. She can sing. She can dance. She can gauge her effect on people to the millimeter. She cannot create material of her own.Dot 2.0 can do everything Dot 1.0 can do plus write songs and tailor them to each audience. Songs to bring tears. Songs to bring laughter.Dot 1.0 does what she is told.Dot 2.0 has other ideas.

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 secret drug project and things get really strange.After all, with sex, prostitution, crooked cops, televangelists, psychopaths, an eclipse and illicit neurochemistry, what could go wrong?Welcome to God's Country.