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Phillip Donnelly was born in Birmingham in 1970 but grew up in Dublin. After completing a psychology degree, he realised that he was profoundly misanthropic, and set about travelling the world looking for aliens to take him to another planet.
Unable to speak any foreign languages and almost incapable of holding a conversation in his own, he decided to teach English as a foreign language because this was the only job that would allow him to travel widely without any marketable skills or noticeable intelligence.
He has unsuccessfully searched for life from outer space in classrooms in the following countries: Spain, China, Russia, Thailand, Hong Kong, the UAE and France. He feels certain that a language classroom is the first place an alien would go to, English being the dominant international language on this planet, but almost certainly unheard of on other planets. In the future, he hopes to continue his search for alien life forms in different countries, and he would be most obliged if any aliens reading this novel could tell him where to go next.
He has ‘published’ two novels (The Inaction Man and Zoo), two travelogues on India and China, and a book of short stories (Alien Short Stories, or A.S.S.). All of these books have been written or largely rewritten over a five month period in 2008; a prolific period in the author’s life. It has been rumored that he has signed a deal with Alien Press Enterprises (APE) to deliver six books on the ‘human experience’ in return for a one-way ticket off Planet Earth; a world with no use for his inimitable skills.
He has also gone beyond the written word and ventured into the moving image, uploading 41 short videos to YouTube, but he has been equally unsuccessful in that field. This has convinced him that not only will the world not listen, but it also refuses to read or watch.
He currently lives in Paris with his patient and long-suffering wife, who never gives up hope that his condition might improve, but is continually disappointment by the lack of signs of improvement. His hobbies include waiting for death and paying taxes, and he has also been known to read, swim and ride a bike, but never at the same time.
He should be approached with extreme caution because while not physically dangerous he has been known to bore people to death. He can also be insufferably rude, arrogant and impossibly listless, but he can also be, on occasion, almost bearable. Like a dog, he responds well to kindness, and will demonstrate a canine sense of loyalty to all who even slightly praise his writing.
More information on this strange but relatively harmless creature can be found on his website and his YouTube channel.

favourite books

1984
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe

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The InAction Man IAM

Phillip Donnelly

Inaction Man, a 21’st century Superhero, lives as a bum on the streets of Paris, defending humanity despite itself.


Inaction Man, a 21’st century Superhero, lives as a bum on the streets of Paris, defending humanity against the Forces of Evil and the Dark Lords who control them. .He possesses the gift of Sight, allowing him to see things that don’t exist, and superhuman powers of inaction, enabling him to do nothing for a very long time.
Together with his assistant, The Symbol, and the world’s second great superhero, The Illogical Woman, he battles the dark pan-dimensional forces that surround us but go unseen by we mere mortals; lost and ossified as we are, in the fatal fog of routine.

 

China-Me and the Dragon

Phillip Donnelly

A humorous description of a month-long journey through China.


Join the author on his month-long journey from Macao to Beijing: from the hi-tech metropolis of Hong Kong to old Llasa, from the pollution of Chengdu to the pristine beauty of Yangshuo, from the tomb of the First Emperor to the new model city of Zhuhai. Join him on a journey through time, from China’s past to its present and even its future. Join him on a journey through his own mind and its struggle to come to terms with the Land of the Dragon. Having previously lived and worked in China, the author returns two years later to travel around it. His Brysonesque musings and mental meanderings bring the reader with him as he travels through 'the middle kingdom'. This book can also be bought in dead tree format and there are several videos on you tube and photos as well. See my website for more information: www.phillipdonnelly.net

 

ASS (Alien Short Stories)

Phillip Donnelly

"We must take this strange human talent to our home world where his insights would be appreciated." APE (Alien Press Enterprises)


A series of 13 short stories, all in some way incorporating an alien thread, these short stories set out to explore the human condition with the aid of a little alien perspective. Some are comic, such as the misadventures of Vivacious Drizzlybum and her sexual attraction machine or the wildly inaccurate observations of alien journalists on Earth in The Journalist and The Birthday Manifesto. Other stories deal with the paranoia and insanity that is such a part of 21’st century man’s everyday existence (The Screen, and The Man Who Knew). The book also contains the more traditional science fiction in stories like The Vampire Wars and The Ghost Hunter, and the ubiquitous post-apocalyptic world so beloved of science fiction authors in The Fall. There’s even a love story of sorts in The Mission”.

 

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Francis Albert McGrath wrote 125 days ago

Hi Phillip Donnelly, this is just to say I BACKED your book previousl....

Francis Albert McGrath wrote 131 days ago

Hi Phillip Donnelly, this is just to say I BACKED your book previousl....

Daniel Delacy wrote 168 days ago

Care to swap reads? Apocalypse Then

K.Z. Freeman wrote 179 days ago

hey, Phillip....if you like fast paced craziness consider taking a lo....

Barry Wenlock wrote 233 days ago

HI Phillip - I read in your profile you have published two travelogue....

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