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Stephen Palmer is the author of fourteen SFF novels: Memory Seed (Orbit 1996), Glass (Orbit 1997), Flowercrash (Wildside 2002), Muezzinland (Wildside 2003), Hallucinating (Wildside 2004) and The Rat And The Serpent (Prime Books 2005). In 2010 PS Publishing published Urbis Morpheos. In 2014 Infinity Plus Books published his surreal slipstream steampunk novel Hairy London, and in 2015 his Beautiful Intelligence and short novel No Grave For A Fox. Ebooks of Muezzinland, Hallucinating and The Rat And The Serpent are available from Infinity Plus, who have also published the ebooks of Memory Seed, Glass and Flowercrash. In 2016, Infinity Plus published his alternate-world steampunk Factory Girl trilogy; The Girl With Two Souls / The Girl With One Friend / The Girl With No Soul, with a new work, Tommy Catkins, out in summer 2018. His short stories have been published by Wildside Press, Spectrum SF, NewCon Press, Infinity Plus, Mutation Press, Eibonvale Press, Solaris, TFQ, Unspoken Water, Doghorn Publishing, Kraxon, Tickety Boo Press, The Manchester Speculative Fiction Group, Boo Books, Wayward Plants, Woodbridge Press and PS Publishing (forthcoming).
Stephen lives and works in Shropshire, UK.
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Pardon my ignorance, but I’m really confused by the Bryn Llewellyn/Stephen Palmer thing. Is Bryn Llewellyn a pen-name of Stephen Palmer? Because I just finished reading a copy of The Rat and the Serpent that I picked up in a used bookstore and it has Bryn Llewellyn as the author listed, not Stephen Palmer.
Greetings, Dan. When I was approached by Prime Books a decade or so ago, it was decided that ‘The Rat & The Serpent’ would better be published as if by a new author. I was cool with that decision. Much later, when I became part of the Infinity Plus stable of authors, we felt it would be better to use my real name, since by then I had a back catalogue of seven books. I hope you enjoyed the novel. It was quite a challenge to write it entirely in black-and-white…
Thanks for the response! And yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I truly haven’t read anything else quite like it. It was a very novel experience.