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Dexter Palmer

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Dexter Palmer lives in Princeton, New Jersey. His first novel, The Dream of Perpetual Motion, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2010, and was selected as one of the best debuts of that year by Kirkus Reviews. His second, Version Control, was published by Pantheon Books in February 2016.

He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, where he completed his dissertation on the novels of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon (and where he also staged the first academic conference ever held at an Ivy League university on the subject of video games).

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Things that I’m up to lately

Sometimes I look at my blog and figure that I ought to post here, just so it’s clear that I haven’t abandoned it entirely–blogging gets a smaller audience than my Twitter account, but it doesn’t have a 140-character limit, which is a point in its favor.

As for what I’m doing–most importantly, I’m starting work on a new novel in earnest, though my expected completion date at the moment is “when it’s

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Dexter Palmer’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 12,336 ratings · 2,336 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Version Control 3.73 avg rating — 7,636 ratings — published 2016 — 8 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
	Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen 3.73 avg rating — 1,927 ratings — published 2019 — 15 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
	The Dream of Perpetual Motion 3.50 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — published 2010 — 16 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
	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 by Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), S.L. Huang (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 779 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
	Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James L. Cambias (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2022 — 6 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
	The Bestiary by Ann VanderMeer, Eric Schaller (Goodreads Author), Karen Lord 3.71 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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
	Bull Spec #2 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), Kaolin Fire, Richard Dansky (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	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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Quotes by Dexter Palmer (?)

“Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

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“The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

tags: delusions, memory, nostalgia, truth

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“There are no new stories in the world anymore, and no more storytellers. There is nothing left but fragments of phrases that signaled their telling: once upon a time; why; and then; the end. But these phrases have lost their meanings through endless repetition, like everything else in this modern, mechanical age. And this machine age has no room for stories. These days we seek our pleasures out in single moments cast in amber, as if we have no desire to connect the future to the past. Stories? We have no time for them; we have no patience.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

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May 2017 Random Sci-Fi

Grass by Sheri S. Tepper

55 votes, 39.0%

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

32 votes, 22.7%

Company Town by Madeline Ashby

28 votes, 19.9%

Version Control by Dexter Palmer

21 votes, 14.9%

Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan

5 votes, 3.5%

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