Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: Paperback
UK ISBN: 9781841499215
US ISBN: 9780316018944
UK eISBN: 9780748120390
US eISBN: 9780316181099
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About the Book:
The odds of surviving quantum teleportation to the Exodus Universe are, more or less, fifty/fifty. The only ones crazy enough to try it are the desperate, the insane and those sentenced to death for their crimes. Belladonna is home to the survivors and, in a planet run by criminals and desperados, death is commonplace. But a particularly horrific (and improbable) killing attracts the Galactic Police force, and a cyborg cop is sent to investigate.
Version 43 has been here before, and has old scores to settle. The cop was human once, but is now more programme than man. And he intends to clean up this planet, permanently, whatever the cost.
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I have just finished reading Version 43. I haven’t enjoyed an SF story so much in years. Loved the different stories all coming together. The sand rats were great! I will definitely read more of your books.
Great to hear that Steve…that one was a joy to write. Hope you enjoy some of the other books in the Palmer-verse…
I am ashamed to admit, that I have never heard of Philip Palmer. Bought Version 43 on a whim at a local store that was going out of business, now I am thoroughly hooked!
Glad you’re hooked – though it’s a damn shame about your local store. Hope you enjoy some of the other books in the Debatable Space universe…
Loved v43! Was totally blown away by the space dragons, awesome stuff. Left me feeling like I did after Neuromancer, Permutation City and Stamping Butterflies ~ completely exhilarated.
Have since read Red Claw & am about a third into Artemis. Will be reading all of your stuff.
Hi Justin – great to hear of your blownawayness. Yeah, Neuromancer, that was a blast – fresh now, amazing way back then. Enjoy the rest of the Palmerverse…
Just gotta say – ‘from the jaws of defeat I always managed to seize more defeat’* – is one the best lines I have ever heard.
Will be added to the quote banner on youareshite.com on our next update and will be verbatim. Haha
Also really dug ‘hypnotised by his own hallucination’ – so sweet and so on the money!
All the best
* know that may not be verbatim
Loved the book. Been dying to get it for a while now after reading Debatable space. If I remember correctly, this was the original “second book” that was pushed back because of its complexity. Red Claw was the orginal “third book” that you finished while still workign on it. So because of that I read it before Red Claw, which I am reading now. Was definatly a great read, and I am enjoying RC right now. I have Artemis sitting on the shelf waiting for me after this, and will get around to Hell Ship eventually.
Hi Joel! Thanks so much for your kind comments. Hope you enjoy Artemis and Hell Ship! I’m currently working on a new series of books – even more complex! – in a different universe entirely from the Debatable Space books. Hope to have news of those soon…
It’s interesting what you say about the covers. I adore the Red Claw and Version 43 covers but I do like the old-style approach of the Debatable Space cover. An ongoing conversation that…My favourite cover of all my books is Artemis, which feels to me to be ”modern’ but also classic, if that makes any sense.
Oh and Happy New Year!