Dexter Palmer. Home. Now available: Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen, the new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Version Control. In , in the town of Godalming, England, a woman confounded the nation’s medical community by giving birth to seventeen rabbits. This astonishing true story is the basis for Dexter Palmer’s stunning, powerfully evocative new novel. Version Control by Dexter Palmer: why wasn't this a waste of my time? I just finished this book last night. I am a sucker for time travel and parallel worlds books and had found this one via io9. But I came away from this book feeling like it was pages of my life I can't get back. · For Rebecca Wright, the protagonist of Dexter Palmer's new novel, Version Control, reality doesn't feel right. Lots of other people feel the same way, she notices, but Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
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Version Control is a thoughtful, powerful overhaul of the age-old time travel tale, one that doesn't radically deconstruct the genre so much as explore it more broadly and deeply. Rebecca is. Dexter Palmer lives in Princeton, New Jersey. His first novel, The Dream of Perpetual Motion, was published by St. Martin’s Press in , 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 Dexter Palmer Dexter Palmer But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine. Version Control is about a possible near future, but it’s also about the way we live now.
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