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Philip Palmer

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in Port Talbot, Wales, The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime

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I started writing when I was 14 and wrote a short story for the school magazine about a bank robber who is killed during a heist and goes to Heaven - can't get through the Pearly Gates, and has to break in. Nicely synthesising all the genres I still love to mash up...!

I wrote five 'widescreen' high-octane high concept SF novels for Orbit Books, including DEBATABLE SPACE and VERSION 43 - blending satire with action with lashings of dark humour.

Now I am writing for film and television as well as writing prose. My recent books include MORPHO, published by NewCon Press and HELL ON EARTH, a fantasy epic about demons and cops.

My most recent book is THE GREAT WEST WOOD, a fantasy set in the fictional suburb of Westood - an urban village which is ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 2,026 ratings · 329 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	Debatable Space 3.38 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Claw 3.65 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Version 43 3.84 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Artemis 3.52 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell Ship 3.57 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell on Earth 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morpho 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeping the Wolf Out 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invasion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wolf: Foreign Bodies (Keeping the Wolf Out, #1) by Philip Palmer (Goodreads Author), Leo Bill (Narrator), Clare Corbett (Narrator) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Debatable Space (4 books)
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Keeping the Wolf Out (6 books)
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Secret Lives of the Dead

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“I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.”
― Philip Palmer

tags: debatable-space

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“What happens," called out Max, "if you win?"
"We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained”
― Philip Palmer

tags: death-and-desctruction, humorous, military-science-fiction

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“The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.”
― Philip Palmer, Artemis

tags: military-science-fiction, philosophy

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Random Sci-Fi for February

The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman

62 votes, 28.4%

The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin

47 votes, 21.6%

Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn

26 votes, 11.9%

Grass, by Sheri S. Tepper

22 votes, 10.1%

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm

18 votes, 8.3%

Hunting Party, by Elizabeth Moon

13 votes, 6.0%

Broken Angels, by Richard K. Morgan

10 votes, 4.6%

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ

10 votes, 4.6%

The Iron Heel, by Jack London

9 votes, 4.1%

Red Claw, by Philip Palmer

1 vote, 0.5%

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Philip’s Quotes

“Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.”
― Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era