DEXTER PALMER lives in Princeton, New Jersey. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, where he completed his dissertation on the work 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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Books containing stories by Dexter Palmer

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (2016)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 2)
edited by
John Joseph Adams and Karen Joy Fowler
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Two Truths and a Lie (2025)
Cory O'Brien
"Two Truths and a Lie is a compulsively readable debut novel, an intricately plotted cyberpunk-noir mystery that takes the idea that information is currency to hilarious and shocking extremes."

After World (2023)
Debbie Urbanski
"After World is a bold, formally inventive, self-assured debut that reimagines post-apocalyptic fiction, while also being as terrifying, dark-humored, and heartbreaking as some of that genre's finest works."

The Ghost Theatre (2023)
Mat Osman
"The star of the show in The Ghost Theatre is Osman's fanciful rendering of Elizabethan England, sometimes dreamlike, sometimes apocalyptic, depicted with such a wealth of sensory detail that it blurs the line between memory and fantasy."
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