Mike Philbin (born 1966 in St Helens, Merseyside) is an artist, editor and author who, as of 1996, resides in Oxford in the United Kingdom. His early career with psycho-realist paintings involved one-man shows in St Helens, Liverpool and London.

Philbin has worked as a 3D character artist/animator on the PlayStation games Medievil and MediEvil II and the PC game Ghost Master and the PSP game From Russia With Love EA. He was part of the animation team on the PS2, Wii and PSP versions of The Simpsons Game for EA.

Philbin's short story writing career began back in 1988 with prose pieces in the New York publication Dreams & Nightmares, writing as Michael Paul Peter and Jane Louxis.

In 1989, Creation Books published Philbin's psycho-erotic novel Red Hedz (writing as Michael Paul Peter). Since then, he has been independently published by Eraserhead Press, Medium Rare Books, Double Dragon Press, Massacre Publishing, CyberPulp Press.

According to a Philbin-penned spoof science article in issue 14 of Dementia 13 Magazine, the Hertzan Chimera Unit is a fundamental particle (equivalent to a free neutron) that predicts that gravity is the driving force in the universe via something called U.E. Universal Equillibrium, light travels backwards towards the source as U.E. fill in, and matter is the true repulsive force. For the last fifteen years since the Dementia 13 article, most of Philbin's writing has been published as Hertzan Chimera.

Philbin is an advocate of the collaborative fiction form , his collaborative book projects are listed below. He is also the editor of the Chimeraworld anthology, now inits fifth year. He has two new novels out in Q2 2008 from Silverthought Press, "Bukkakeworld" and "Planet f the Owls".

 

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