About Philip Palmer
Born 1960. Philip Palmer is a British author and science fiction writer.
Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter. Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1978.
Writing career His first novel was Debatable Space, published in January 2008 by Orbit Books in the United Kingdom and the United States. Philip Palmer describes himself as "...a glamorous hyphenate. Writer-writer-toolazytogetaproperjob-writer." The Art Of Deception, 22–26 June 2009 The Art of Deception, Day of the Dead (series 2), 20–24 December 2010 Bearing Witness, legal drama inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, 12 December 2012 Speak, amid dystopian "Globish", a 1500-word version of English, a dangerous romance makes a case for how words – and even more, their paucity – can control, confine, leach emotion and trap minds, 18 June 2018
Novels Debatable Space (2008) Red Claw (2009) Version 43 (2010) Hell Ship (2011) Artemis (2011) Hell on Earth (2017)
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Philip Palmer was born on 7 June 1960 in Port Talbot.
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