stephen palmer

This is the cover design for my upcoming novel Tommy Catkins, due out from Infinity Plus Books in a week or two.

Delighted to say that my next novel Tommy Catkins is to be published in the not-too-distant future by Infinity Plus Books. Really pleased about this one! Following a horrific experience at Verdun, Tommy Catkins – shellshocked and suffering head injuries – is sent to a private mental hospital on...

Along with 9 other authors (including Tricia Sullivan, Justina Robson, Eric Brown and Cherith Baldry) I have a story in a new, beautifully packaged SF anthology from Wayward Plants called Improbable Botany. This collection was edited by Gary Dalkin, whose name will be known to many. The book is...

Here's a new blog post: Why I Wrote Glass. Saturday will see a blog post on Flowercrash.

I'm tempted to pick up Beautiful Intelligence to sample Stephen Palmer's work - but I wondered if there's a different novel readers would recommend starting with? I know Beautiful Intelligence is part of a series, so I'm not sure whether that - or a self-contained novel - would probably work...

Finished. Really enjoyed it. Very thought-provoking. Currently mulling over what I've just read. Some observations. Dante's Inferno and the passage of the soul towards God seems to be an influence on this where the factory is concerned. Evolution. I remember reading somewhere a while back...

Great new review here by Kate Coe at SFF World.

The Girl with Two Souls is a little difficult to classify, it is part steampunk, part fantasy, part alternate history and, arguably, part science fiction. It is also YA. Now I am no longer a fantasy reader and am not a great fan of alternate history or YA so it was really something of a pleasant...

Here's a new interview, done by Andrew Leon Hudson at the Cartesian Theatre. More to follow...

Volume 1, The Girl With Two Souls, is published today: Kindle UK. Paperback UK. Kindle US. Paperback US.

Volume 1 front cover:

Dates for your diary: the Factory Girl trilogy. Cover reveal day: Sunday 13 November. The Girl With Two Souls: Tuesday 22 November. The Girl With One Friend: Tuesday 29 November. The Girl With No Soul: Tuesday 6 December The Conscientious Objector: 2017

I've begun a new section on my blog called Opinion. Here is the first piece...

Really enjoying it!

Haikus.

Also coming out very soon - first time in paperback for ten years.

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From 7th December there will be a 'Roundtable' event at the SFF World forum, with myself as one of the participants. Also there will be the superb Gwyneth Jones. Come on down!

The Kickstarter campaign has begun for the Ecotones anthology in which I and Jonathan Laidlow have a story. There's also a Facebook page to check out. 28 days to go!

An edited podcast of a transatlantic chat I did a few weeks back...