Best Stephen Palmer novel to start with?

[Brian G Turner]

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 better?

 

[mosaix]

Why not ask Stephen?

 

[tinkerdan]

I would recommend The Rat and the Serpent.

The Rat And The Serpent
Then Beautiful Mind.
But I must confess that those are the two I've read so far.
Maybe next::
The Girl with... Novels
That's a recommend for me not for you.(Unless you want.)

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Definitely The Girl With Two Souls.

The Rat & The Serpent isn't my best work.
BI I have mixed feelings for, though No Grave For A Fox I like.

If you're on Kindle @Brian G Turner you might like Memory Seed.
Hallucinating is for fans of psychedelic music only.
Urbis Morpheos is very challenging!
Hairy London is mad as a badger.

I rest my case. :/

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Hairy London is a remarkably fun read.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Here's a haiku-sized guide for the perplexed.

I suppose I should update this with the new ones.

 

[tinkerdan]

And here is the whole
Anthologized into one
haiku gahzundheit

 

[Foxbat]

I'd agree with Stephen that The Girl With Two Souls is his best work.

I quite liked the idea behind The Rat And The Serpent (a novel in black and white) but not his best.

Hairy London, I enjoyed but felt like I was in a trench cowering under a barrage from a manic imagination (and maybe I was). I was left somewhat bemused and shell-shocked by the experience. Perhaps this was because it was the first book of his I read.

I disagree with him on Beautiful Intelligence. I have no mixed feelings....I thoroughly enjoyed it

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I really must get on with Dairy London …

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Memory Seed really swept me away. I think it might be a good place to start. Although a little like being thrown into the pool for the first time at the deep end. . . .