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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.-
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- Philip Palmer on Keeping the Wolf Out: Series 2
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Holiday Reading: 1Q84
My summer holiday this year was in Mallorca – two nights in Palma, then a week on the north eastern coast at a lovely resort called Puerto Pollensa. One…
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SFF Song of the Week: Kim Lakin-Smith
Posted on October 9, 2011 | 1 CommentI’ve already written about the Fantasy Con at Brighton…which also featured many book launches, including an amazing-looking book by Kim Lakin-Smith called Cyber Circus. I got to know Kim when... -
Fantasy Con Furore
Posted on October 6, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis blog takes no sides in the growing furore over the British Fantasy Con Awards – a controversy that threatens to tarnish my enjoyment of that delightful event. If you’ve... -
Fantasy Con 2011
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsLast weekend I attended my first ever Fantasy Con….I felt like an interloper, a science fiction writer sneaking into the land of dragons and men with beards and big swords.... -
Hell Ship Reviews
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 6 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.... -
Hell Ship Speaks
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsA huge envelope arrived through my door this week, and inside were Sharrock, Jak and Sai-ias – the three protagonists of my novel Hell Ship. This was the audio... -
A Glimpse of Dystopia
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe riots are over for now. Some people have lost their businesses; four people have died; and those of us who were lucky enough not to be directly involved are... -
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... -
Conan: Coming Soon
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsI truly can’t wait for the spectacle and silliness of the new Conan the Barbarian Movie…I love Robert E. Howard’s stories and understated stories, and always loved the Arnie version.... -
SFF Song of the Week: Eric Brown
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsI met Eric Brown at my first Eastercon; he’s a charming guy, and is universally admired as one of the finest and most imaginative writers in SF, equally adept in... -
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... -
SFF Song of the Week: My Top 10
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsFor some time now I’ve been running a feature on my website called SFF Song of the Week. Like a bar which sells books and also serves chocolate, this has... -
Book Signing Weekend
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsYesterday I spent the afternoon signing books at Forbidden Planet…as jobs go, this was a bit like being forced to eat chocolate in a chocolate factory. This is the Shaftesbury Avenue... -
SFF Song of the Week: Peter F. Hamilton
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsThis week’s blogjay is Peter F. Hamilton, who in my view is one of the greatest writers of space opera around – master of widescreen storytelling but able to create... -
Sai-ias Speaks
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsThis is the longest of the excerpts provided by Recorded Books from their audio book version of Hell Ship. It’s narrated by Sai-ias, who is the heroine of the story ...