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Philip Palmer, Renaissance Man? No way!
Posted on March 26, 2012 | 3 CommentsFor the last few weeks I’ve been doing an interview for the Irish blogger and writer Bob Neilson, who does a lot of stuff for the Irish online mag Albedo... -
A-Z of the Palmerverses
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve just been proof-reading ARTEMIS, which is my fifth novel for Orbit Books, and is published later this year. And I had a bit of a ‘wow’ moment. Wow! Four... -
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... -
Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces
Posted on December 7, 2010 | 3 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. -
Writing Habits
Posted on November 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsBlogger Adam Christopher has just posted a piece from me about writerly habits…I met Adam at the last Easteron, a story he tells here… -
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,... -
Red Claw Stuff
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve just been told of an exciting book tournament being held by BSCreview…It’s a knockout competition between rival books and the last book standing will, presumably, win fair maiden. Hey... -
Are Shit Reviews Good for a Writer’s Soul?
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 7 CommentsIn the last few weeks I’ve been dabbling in controversial topics on this blogsite. First I DARED TO DEFY the great John Scalzi by pointing out that he’s totally (utterly!... -
Red Claw: The Moodboard
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No CommentsHere are some images which inspired Red Claw. Red Claw is the story of science and nature on an alien planet, featuring a motley crew of obsessional scientists who are... -
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... -
Best of 2009?
Posted on December 11, 2009 | No CommentsOver at SF Crowsnest, they’ve compiled their list of the top 100 SFF novels of 2009….I’m glad to see Red Claw is in there, at number 17…. -
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... -
On Space Art
Posted on November 20, 2009 | No CommentsI just had a very nice email from a ‘space artist’ called Brian Smallwood, who has just read and loved Red Claw. Check out these amazing images on his website,... -
Forbidden Planet
Posted on November 12, 2009 | No CommentsI had a delightful morning in Forbidden Planet earlier this week, signing copies of Red Claw. (They’ve sold quite a few, but there are still plenty left!) This shop really... -
No Waste of Time
Posted on November 5, 2009 | 2 CommentsI’ve been meaning to write a blog about the A Space of Waste? debate I attended at Greenwich Observatory, as part of the Sci-Fi London event. It was a terrific... -
What’s in a name?
Posted on October 20, 2009 | 1 CommentI’ve been following a very interesting debate on the Guardian books blog …Damian G. Walter writes well and wittily about the state of SF, and how the ideas and (dare... -
Red Claw Day
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 7 CommentsIt’s one day to the official publication date of Red Claw in the UK…it’s a nice, but strange feeling when a book is almost but not quite out. I wrote... -
Free copies of Red Claw
Posted on September 14, 2009 | 1 CommentGet your free copy of Red Claw (if you’re lucky) from this man. -
On the Wonder of Nature
Posted on September 9, 2009 | No CommentsLast night I watched the first episode in a 3 part series about naturalists. Yeah, I know that sounds as exciting as watching paint dry. But in fact, it was...