Finalist, The Best Thriller Book Awards on BestThrillers.com
Winner of a 2022 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction Distinguished Favorite!
In the dystopian future where the rich have turned two dimensional and gobbled up the world’s resources, leaving the enslaved poor to remain three dimensional, can a disgraced detective help his rebellious daughter save the world?
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Advance Praise for Prior Futures
Prior Futures is one of the year’s top books and is a must-read for sci-fi fans.
– BestThrillers.com
Prior Futures is a clever, biting work of satire. Rich with humor and horror, it transitions with ease from the silly and absurd to the powerfully allegorical.
– Fredrick Soukup, author of Bliss
Dan Kopcow builds an aesthetically pleasing world and weaves a hauntingly inclusive tale of technology and wealth gone sour, as Jeremiah Prior searches high and low for redemption and, hopefully, a way to turn his life and many others around. In a decadent future, and in the era of the Mod, Prior is an unsung hero. World shaping honed, Kopcow is clearly a science fiction writer to look out for.
– Lawrence Dagstine, author of Espionage First
An imaginative and stirring blend of hardboiled detective noir and science fiction, Prior Futures shows a dystopia where nanotechnology has taken wealth inequality to horrifying extremes. Crackling with wit, creative and richly detailed views of a frightening future, brilliant social commentary about wealth and technology, and a call for humanity, Prior Futures is an enjoyable book with a satisfying and moving conclusion.
— Matthew Arnold Stern, author of Amiga and The Remainders
Dan Kopcow’s Prior Futures is a smart, satirical thriller with a hardboiled, political edge, hilarious dialogue, and a loopy optimism all its own. With knowing nods to Flatland and The Maltese Falcon, the tale spins out in a swarm of nanos, cops, detectives, and mad scientists. As the bodies pile up, sparks fly off the page. A great ride.
– Jon Frankel, author of GAHA: Babes of the Abyss and Isle of Dogs
Prior Futures challenged my concepts of the limits and potential dangers of future technologies gone amuck without control. It ultimately gave me hope for the humans who survived an experiment in population control gone horrifyingly wrong. It encouraged and thrilled me as the humans proved they had a strong will to survive the worst circumstances as old proven technologies prevail over corrupted new ones.
– Sharon K. Middleton, author of The McCarron’s Corner series
The sci-fi paranoia of Philip K. Dick meets the hardboiled sleuthing of Raymond Chandler. Prior Futures is a fast-paced and enigmatic trip through a nightmare world lost to its own decadent affair with nanotechnology and two-dimensional beings. Atmospheric and thought-provoking, this book will have you looking over your shoulder for nanos. It won’t help, though. You can’t see them.
– David E. Sharp, author of Lost on a Page
Sam Spade meets Blade Runner in this mind-bending story of a dystopian world where two-dimensional beings rule. Dan Kopcow has created a cynical detective, worthy of Raymond Chandler, who shuffles, floats, and warps among a cast of eccentric characters in search of his own Maltese Falcon—a blood-borne art treasure that may hold the clue to survival for both the powerless and the powerful. Fast-paced and provocative, Prior Futures does not disappoint.
– Steven Mayfield, award winning author of Treasure of the Blue Whale and the forthcoming Delphic Oracle U.S.A.
An ambitious take on a classic, set in a quirky, upsetting reality, Prior Futures is a delightfully imaginative take on the classic noir detective. Exploring what we are willing to risk for family, for integrity, for identity, it ponders the age old question – what makes us human? Creative, full of twists and turns, it takes the best of the detective genre and puts a fantastical cyberpunk spin on it. Hold on to your hat. This is one wild ride!
– Alice Kaltman, author of Dawg Towne
What does it mean to be human in a world where nanotechnology separates the rich and poor, the Mod and the Fringe, into two or three dimensions?
Set in the near terrifying future, where extreme weather patterns have become the norm and nanotechnology has reached terrifying heights, Prior Futures places crime noir into a chilling dystopian landscape where class has become dimensional, and the human ‘Fringe’ subject to the whims of the ‘Mod’. Prior Futures asks what would you sacrifice for immortality? For redemption? For family?
– Alicia Gilmore, author of Path to the Night Sea