Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts is a writer of science fiction novels and stories, as well as Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His novels and short stories have been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association award, the John W. Campbell award and the Kitschies' Red Tentacle.

Adam is also a columnist for the Guardian and a prolific critic. He has published more than twenty novels, a number of academic works on both 19th century poetry and SF, stories, parodies, bits, pieces, this and that.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Salt (2000)
  • On (2001)
  • Stone (2002)
  • Polystom (2003)
  • The Snow (2004)
  • Gradisil (2006)
  • Land of the Headless (2007)
  • Splinter (2007)
  • Swiftly: A Novel (2008)
  • Yellow Blue Tibia: A Novel (2009)
  • New Model Army (2010)
  • By Light Alone (2011)
  • Jack Glass (2012)
  • Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014)
  • Bête (2014)
  • The Thing Itself (2015)
  • The Real-Town Murders (2017)
  • By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018)
  • Haven (2018)
  • The Black Prince (2018)
  • Purgatory Mount (2021)
  • The This (2022)
  • The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate (2023)
  • Lake of Darkness (2024)

Novellas

  • Park Polar (2002)
  • Jupiter Magnified (2003)
  • Anticopernicus (2011)
  • Bethany (2016)
  • The Lake Boy (2018)
  • The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
  • The Compelled (2020)
  • Stealing for the Sky (2022)
  • The Midas Rain (2023)
  • High (2024)

Criticism

  • Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy (1998)
  • Science Fiction (The New Critical Idiom) (2000, second edition 2005)
  • Fredric Jameson (2000)
  • Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings (original version by Lin Carter) (Roberts updated the text for the 2003 edition)
  • The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Histories of Literature) (2006, second edition 2016)
  • The Riddles of The Hobbit (Palgrave Macmillan) (2013)
  • Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews (2014)
  • Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.)
  • H G Wells: A Literary Life (2019)
  • It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of (2020) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.)

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