James Palmer is an award-winning writer of science fiction and pulp adventure. He edited the Monster Earth anthologies as well as League of Monsters and Southern Fried Cthulhu. His short fiction has appeared in The Expanding Universe volume 5 and Blaze Ward Presents: After the Fall, among others. James is also the author of four books in the Shadow Council Archives universe for Falstaff Books, The Depths of Time (winner Best Novel, 2021 New Pulp Fiction Award), Shadows Over London, The Dream Key and The Map of Time. He also wrote the space opera novels Star Swarm and Ix Incursion.