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Hell Ship Reviews
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 2 CommentsIt’s been a crazy busy time…I’ve spent all today planning a war in the Middle East, trying to decide whether I should invade Syria in my first wave of attacks... -
B is for Beelzebub
Posted on September 10, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat is it with vampires? That’s the question that prompted me to start exploring the many mythological beasties other than Count Dracula and his kin who might or indeed have... -
Awesome Trailer
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsHere’s a truly awesome book trailer for Brent Weeks’ new book The Black Prism, courtesy of our very own Orbit Books: Now all us other Orbit writers are going... -
Fantasy Con 2011
Posted on September 1, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve just been looking at the schedule for the forthcoming Fantasy Con in Brighton which I’ll be attending (September 30th – October 2nd). Guest speakers include Christopher Paolini, Gwyneth... -
The Age of America
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsLast week I suggested we were living in the Age of X – at a time when the X-Men are the dominant heroes of our culture, and X-Men movies are... -
G is for Golem
Posted on August 22, 2011 | No CommentsI recently asked, What is it with vampires? In other words, why don’t horror and fantasy writers make more use of all the other weird mythological monsters that exist in... -
The Age of X
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsMike Carey recently and very kindly sent me a copy of his X-Men series, The Age of X; I did a swapsies and sent him a copy of Hell Ship.... -
Fantastic Fiction: SF Rebranded
Posted on August 8, 2011 | 8 CommentsA little while back I read a fascinating series of articles on SF Signal (Part One here, Part Two here) about the Death of Science Fiction – which, like the... -
Does it matter if all the bookshops close?
Posted on June 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsLast week Stephen Hunt sent me the link for this fascinating article about one writer’s experience of shopping at the new digital-age Barnes & Noble – i.e. CRAP. In their... -
The Debatable Space Universe
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No CommentsDebatable Space, my first science fiction novel, is part of a triptych of books all set in the same Universe with similar themes, and comparable lunatic story twists. This is... -
Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces
Posted on December 7, 2010 | No CommentsMy Debatable Space Facebook page has just had a fantastic new revamp, thanks to that ace webguy Darren Turpin. This page was originally set up when my first novel, er,... -
A Book-Lover’s Easy Virtue
Posted on November 24, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve been mulling about genre, here. -
Orbital Drop
Posted on November 22, 2010 | No CommentsHey, Debatable Space is featured in this month’s Orbital Drop – download this dangerously deranged novel for a paltry $2.99….! And check out that fancy new cover, which for the... -
SFF Song of the Week: Philip Palmer
Posted on October 18, 2010 | No CommentsThis has been a high adrenalin week, by my standards (I speak as a professional writer – we really DON’T don’t have very exciting lives.) Firstly – this is a... -
How to Write Action SF
Posted on March 22, 2010 | 6 CommentsWhat’s the best way to kill an alien? Do you zap it with energy beams, blast it with bullets, burn it with a flame-thrower, drop an anti-matter bomb on it,... -
Debatable Space: The Moodboard
Posted on January 1, 2010 | No CommentsAs the New Year begins, I’m looking forward to an intense and exhilarating writing schedule, with a new 2-book deal from Orbit which means, um, I have to write another... -
Finally, the sexy aliens…
Posted on December 15, 2009 | No CommentsI’ve written a new Orbit post about one of my favourite subjects – aliens. Take a look here. This post prompted ace webguy Darren Turpin to send me a link... -
On the Predator Pack
Posted on December 8, 2009 | 1 CommentI’ve been blogging on the Orbit site about evil, and it came as something as a shock to me to realise quite how dark is my own soul. In real... -
That Ariel Magic
Posted on March 31, 2009 | 2 CommentsStar blogger Ariel, aka Darren Turpin the marketing wizard at Orbit, has now given this website a revamp…check out The Books section and see what happens when you click those... -
On Red Claw
Posted on March 29, 2009 | 1 CommentRed Claw, my follow up to Debatable Space, is now on its way to a bookshop near you….well actually, not till later this year (October I believe). But there’s an...