Welcome to Debatable Spaces
This is the online home of SF author Philip Palmer, whose novels include Debatable Space, Red Claw, Version 43, Hell Ship and the forthcoming Artemis.-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Philip Palmer on Red Claw
- Doug on Red Claw
- Philip Palmer on On the Art of Covers
- Joel McConnell on On the Art of Covers
- Juan on Orbit Blog
Debatable Topics
Books & eBooks by Philip Palmer
Tags
Artemis avatar Brian-Ruckley British-film-industry cannes-film-festival charles-stross cinema danny stack debatable-spaces Debatable Space genre-fiction heartbeat Hell Ship heroes images of space international-space-station james cameron jeff-somers Jesse Bullington john-scalzi marvel-comics misfits movies NASA neil-gaiman Nicole Peeler Orbit-Books Peter-F.-Hamilton Philip-Palmer quentin-tarantino radio-drama Red Claw richard-morgan sci fi london Screen-Yorkshire sf crowsnest Sharrock space star-trek Stephen-King Stuart Angell McGregor the art of deception tv-drama Version 43 zack snyder
The Writer’s Quest Archive
-
Howard Hawks
Posted on November 13, 2011 | No CommentsLast night I watched His Girl Friday again, for the nth time. It’s one of my favourite ever films. One of those sharp sassy black and white movies with machine-gun... -
Opening Lines
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 3 CommentsI’ve been mulling about opening lines . Don’t know why. Another reason to avoid writing all the stuff that comes AFTER the opening line. Isn’t this just the greatest opening... -
Why to be a Writer
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the highlights of my Eastercon just past was taking part in a writers’ workshop run by an excellent group called the T Party. Hi guys! This was a... -
Pitch Factor
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 1 CommentFor the practising writer, there is no uglier word in the English language than “pitch”. (Except for the word “Rejection”.) As writers we want to be judged by our work,... -
The Writer’s Quest, Part 1: Find Yourself
Posted on December 4, 2009 | 4 CommentsI’ve been mulling about the Robert Jackson Bennett post about How to Write a Story over on the Orbit website. It’s a funny, brief and utterly brilliant little essay. And it’s... -
On Writing Science Fiction
Posted on May 20, 2007 | No CommentsCrime has been good to me over the years. One of my first and best jobs in television was as a script editor on the cult BBC series The Paradise...