Philip Palmer
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 Philip Palmer in 2005 | |
| Born | 7 June 1960 Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Science fiction |
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Philip Palmer is a British novelist and screenwriter.[1] Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1978.[2]
Writing career
[edit]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."[1]
Works
[edit]Radio Plays
[edit]For BBC Radio 4:
- Gin and Rum, about ghosts, 30 June 2000
- Fallen, 23 January 2001
- The Faerie Queene, a very free version of Spenser’s epic poem, in the outlet's Classic Serial, 30 September 2001 – 7 October 2001
- The King’s Coiner, about the older-age anti-counterfeiter Isaac Newton, amid the cut-throat nature of serious fraud at the time, 23 April 2002
- The Travels of Marco Polo, 18 February 2004
- Rubato, about music, 11 February 2005
- Blame, about industrial manslaughter, 12 August 2005
- Breaking Point, Day of the Dead, 10 August 2007[3]
- The Art Of Deception, 22–26 June 2009[4]
- The Art of Deception, Day of the Dead (series 2), 20–24 December 2010[5]
- Bearing Witness, legal drama inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, 12 December 2012[6]
- 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[7]
Novels
[edit]- Debatable Space (2008)
- Red Claw (2009)
- Version 43 (2010)
- Hell Ship (2011)
- Artemis (2011)
- Hell on Earth (2017)
References
[edit]- ^ "In Print". Jesus College Newsletter. Jesus College, Oxford: 19. 2008.
- ^ BBC – Friday Play – Breaking Point
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – The Art of Deception
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Day of the Dead
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Bearing Witness".
- ^ "Speak: Andrew Gower on BBC Radio 4". 17 October 2020.
External links
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Wikiquote has quotations related to Philip Palmer.
- Official Philip Palmer Web site
- Philip Palmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Philip Palmer at IMDb
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