Philip Palmer

{{short description|British novelist and screenwriter (born 1960)}} {{otherpeople}} {{Infobox writer |image = Philip Palmer.jpg |image_size = 200px | name = Philip Palmer | caption = Philip Palmer in 2005 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|6|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author | nationality = British | period = | genre = Science fiction | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | website = {{URL|http://www.philippalmer.net/}} | footnotes = }} '''Philip Palmer''' is a British novelist and screenwriter.<ref name="author">[http://www.philippalmer.net/the-author/ The Author | Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces]</ref> Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he studied English at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1978.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Jesus College Newsletter|pages=19|title=In Print| publisher=Jesus College, Oxford|year=2008}}</ref>

==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."<ref name="author"/>

==Works==

=== Radio Plays === 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<ref> [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vlvp BBC – Friday Play – ''Breaking Point'']</ref> * ''The Art Of Deception'', 22–26 June 2009<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l3bgx BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – ''The Art of Deception'']</ref> * ''The Art of Deception, Day of the Dead'' (series 2), 20–24 December 2010<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wp4x6 BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – ''Day of the Dead'']</ref> * ''Bearing Witness'', legal drama inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, 12 December 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p71wv|title = BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Bearing Witness}}</ref> *''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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://andrew-gower.co.uk/2020/10/17/speak-andrew-gower-on-bbc-radio-4/|title=Speak: Andrew Gower on BBC Radio 4|date=17 October 2020}}</ref>

=== Novels === * ''Debatable Space'' (2008) * ''Red Claw'' (2009) * ''Version 43'' (2010) * ''Hell Ship'' (2011) * ''Artemis'' (2011) * ''Hell on Earth'' (2017)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{wikiquote}} * [http://www.philippalmer.net/ Official Philip Palmer Web site] *{{isfdb name|id=Philip_Palmer|name=Philip Palmer}} * {{IMDb name|0658417}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Philip}} Category:English science fiction writers Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Category:Living people Category:1960 births Category:People from Port Talbot