Michael Scott Phillips

I’m an author, graphic designer, and oil painter. Mainly, I write space opera, though I don’t feel bound by any particular genre and tend to write whatever idea thrills me. I also enjoy film photography, SF television shows, classic films, and developing alien languages and symbols—such as my semasiographic language, Astivian.

“Speculative Fiction and Plausibility” — The Science of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 1

Not very much of my debut novel, When Morpheus Overslept, involves heavy use of hard science fiction. Though I spent a great deal of time—almost as much as writing the first draft—developing the technology that drove my world, very little of it actually came out in the finished novel, just as it should be. Nevertheless, […]

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Welcome to The Prose and Paint of Michael Scott Phillips

Welcome to my new website, MichaelScottPhillipsAuthor.com! This website has been a long time coming. In the craziness that has been 2020, so many other tasks have taken priority over getting this new site up and running—oil paintings, writing, editing, and querying new books, not to mention the existential dread that creeps in like a spectre

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