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Stephen Palmer

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in Harpenden, The United Kingdom

February 28

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Stephen Palmer is the author of fourteen novels: Memory Seed (Orbit 1996; Infinity Plus ebooks 2013), Glass (Orbit 1997; Infinity Plus ebooks 2013), Flowercrash (Wildside 2002; Infinity Plus ebooks 2013), Muezzinland (Wildside 2003; Infinity Plus ebooks 2011), Hallucinating (Wildside 2004; Infinity Plus ebooks 2011), as Bryn Llewellyn, The Rat And The Serpent (Prime Books 2005; Infinity Plus ebooks 2012) and Urbis Morpheos (PS Publishing 2010). His eighth novel, the surreal and fast-paced Hairy London, was published as a paperback and ebook in 2014, while the ninth, Beautiful Intelligence, was published in 2015, also by Infinity Plus Books, as was the subsequent short novel No Grave For A Fox. In 2016, Infinity Plus published his alternate- ...more

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	Beautiful Intelligence 3.46 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory Seed 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Girl With Two Souls (The Factory Girl Trilogy Book 1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Stephen Palmer liked Simon Ings's blog post: Religion is more than opium " A review for the Telegraph: A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A history of Soviet atheism by Victoria Smolkin On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin clambered into Vostok I, blasted into space, and became the first human being to orbit the earth. “An..." Read more of this blog post »
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Stephen Palmer liked Dave's review of In Yana, the Touch of Undying: "Entertaining enough as a vaguely tongue-in-cheek quest fantasy, but it lacks the stylish prose and sly humour of the Jack Vance Dying Earth books it is so obviously trying to emulate."
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