With his acerbic wit, masterful control over language, and scientific attention to detail, Phillip Carter is creating a new wave of literature that is mind-bending, accessible, and hilarious. Travelling across dimensions, Phillip picks up comedy, poetry, and Science Fiction in his timeship, mixing them together into a cosmic cocktail that breathes new life into Science Fiction.
His debut book, Who Built The Humans?, is a manic collection of interconnected Science Fiction and Comedy stories about the beginnings and endings of the human species. Part conspiracy, part science, part comedy, the book arrived into this world in 2020 to receive great reviews from people Phillip didn’t even have to pay. A special edition is due out in 2024, which will prepare the world for Who Built The Humans? Two, in which the humans return from their multifaceted co[s]mic deaths with hilarious consequences.
Phillip graduated from Edge Hill University in 2017 with a Masters in Creative Writing. Before then he won his university’s Comedian Award, founded a writing society, and was awarded his university’s excellence in Creative Writing scholarship for his work in making poems about quantum physics.
He was on Channel 4’s Lego Masters, as his alter ego Grumblebricks. Grumble occupies the graphic designer side of Phillip’s head, and may soon be an official Lego set designer. He is also a poster artist, book cover and bookmark designer. If it’s creative, Phillip will do it.
Since graduating, Phillip has opened a bookstall at ComicCon, set up Halfplanet Press, created his own writing and comedy podcasts, performed a dark comedy time travel show at Bright Club, and had crowds laughing about alien abductions at the Manchester Fringe, where he gave out tin foil hats and inflatable aliens to his audience. He is currently taking up radio presenting training, and spends his spare time going to live comedy shows and radio recordings. He’s also a painter and comedy illustrator.
Phillip has been on more podcasts than he can remember, and he is currently writing no less than fourteen new books. Whilst each of these books can be read as a standalone, his more dedicated readers may notice secret links and portals between their universes.
Phillip is building a multiverse, and you are invited.
To conclude. This poet/comedian/author/bigfoot lookalike is a one-man-band of strange and hilarious literature. If you like your stories original and your jokes weird, this is where you need to go.
His future books include Who Built The Humans? Two, The Earthloop Trilogy, and The Stephanie Glitch.
You can read his short stories, comedy, and poetry at realphillipcarter.substack.com
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