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Philip Palmer

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Born

in Port Talbot, Wales, The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime

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Philip Palmer is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist and an award-winning screenwriter and radio dramatist whose credits include productions for the BBC starring Iain McDiarmid and Simon Russell Beale.

His novels blend dark humour, genre-bending world-building, and relentless plot momentum. Hell on Earth, his alternate-London crime thriller set in a world where Hell is literally a borough, was named a Finalist in the 2026 American Book Fest Legacy Book Awards. Lavie Tidhar (World Fantasy Award winner) calls his work 'magical madness', and agent and editor John Jarrold calls Hell on Earth 'brilliant: horrific, gripping and darkly humorous'.

His other books include the SF thriller Version 43, the space opera Hell Ship, the novella Mo ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 2,049 ratings · 334 reviews · 50 distinct works • Similar authors

	Debatable Space 3.37 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 — 444 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 3.83 avg rating — 367 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 3.51 avg rating — 263 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 — 218 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 4.04 avg rating — 28 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 3.65 avg rating — 20 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 3.72 avg rating — 18 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 3.92 avg rating — 13 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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This is a Philip Pullman-esque fantasy set in an alternate Oxford. The depth of thought and richness of the world is awe-inspiring. A hugely impressive novel.
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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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Red Claw, by Philip Palmer

1 vote, 0.5%

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“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