Kopcow, Dan: - Dan Kopcow's sci-fi noir detective novel, Prior Futures, published in December 2021 by Black Rose Writing, won a 2022 Independent Press Award for Science Fiction Distinguished Favorite and was a Science Fiction Best Thriller of 2021 Finalist at BestThriller.com. Kopcow's fiction short story collection, Worst. Date. Ever., was published by Regal House Publishing in March 2020 and was named one of 2020's top 100 novels by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). The anthology, Thank You, Death Robot, which included his short story, The Cobbler Cherry, won an Independent Publishing Award for best science-fiction and fantasy and was voted a Chicago Tribune Top Ten Fiction book. Kopcow has had dozens of other short stories published in several magazines and anthologies.