Adam Roberts is a writer, critic and academic. He is the author of sixteen novels and many shorter works, including the prize-winning Jack Glass (2012). He is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has published critically on a wide range of topics, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and science fiction. He lives in the south-east of England.
Awards: Campbell (2013), BSFA (2012) see all
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Historical Mystery, Historical, Horror, Fantasy
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Series
Novels
Salt (2000)
On (2001)
Stone (2002)
Polystom (2003)
The Snow (2004)
The Va Dinci Cod (2005) (as by A R R R Roberts)
Star Warped (2005) (as by A R R R Roberts)
Gradisil (2006)
Doctor Whom (2006) (as by A R R R Roberts)
Land of the Headless (2007)
Splinter (2007)
Swiftly (2008)
Yellow Blue Tibia (2009)
I Am Scrooge (2009)
New Model Army (2010)
The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010)
Anticopernicus (2011)
By Light Alone (2011)
Jack Glass (2012)
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014)
Bete (2014)
The Thing Itself (2015)
Bethany (2016)
The Black Prince (2018) (with Anthony Burgess)
The Compelled (2020) (with Francois Schuiten)
Purgatory Mount (2021)
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (2021)
The This (2022)
Stealing For The Sky (2022)
The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate (2023)
High (2024)
Lake of Darkness (2024)
The Swoon (2024)
On (2001)
Stone (2002)
Polystom (2003)
The Snow (2004)
The Va Dinci Cod (2005) (as by A R R R Roberts)
Star Warped (2005) (as by A R R R Roberts)
Gradisil (2006)
Doctor Whom (2006) (as by A R R R Roberts)
Land of the Headless (2007)
Splinter (2007)
Swiftly (2008)
Yellow Blue Tibia (2009)
I Am Scrooge (2009)
New Model Army (2010)
The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010)
Anticopernicus (2011)
By Light Alone (2011)
Jack Glass (2012)
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014)
Bete (2014)
The Thing Itself (2015)
Bethany (2016)
The Black Prince (2018) (with Anthony Burgess)
The Compelled (2020) (with Francois Schuiten)
Purgatory Mount (2021)
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (2021)
The This (2022)
Stealing For The Sky (2022)
The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate (2023)
High (2024)
Lake of Darkness (2024)
The Swoon (2024)
Collections
Swiftly Stories (2004)
Adam Robots (2013)
Irregularity (2014) (with Nick Harkaway and Claire North)
Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015)
Lost Worlds Short Stories (2017)
Adam Robots (2013)
Irregularity (2014) (with Nick Harkaway and Claire North)
Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015)
Lost Worlds Short Stories (2017)
Novellas and Short Stories
Park Polar (2001)
Jupiter Magnified (2002)
The Lake Boy (2018)
The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
The Midas Rain (2023)
Jupiter Magnified (2002)
The Lake Boy (2018)
The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
The Midas Rain (2023)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
Books containing stories by Adam Roberts

Reports From the Deep End (2023)
Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski and Rick McGrath
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Adam Roberts recommends

Esperance (2025)
Adam Oyebanji
"A gripping mystery about an impossible murder combines with a marvellous story of a strange, possibly alien, odyssey around our present-day world, with all its problems and heritage. Guess the murder solution and you're a better reader than I, though the solution is both satisfying and resonant. Thrilling and sparky writing, extremely readable: a gem of a thriller."

Calypso (2024)
Oliver K Langmead
"Calypso is a brilliant, consistently amazing and utterly original piece of science fiction: intensely readable and absorbing not despite being in verse but because of it, expertly handled and thought-provoking."

Gogmagog (2024)
(Chronicles of Ludwich, book 1)
Steve Beard and Jeff Noon
"Marvellous stuff: a great flowing river of a novel, endlessly inventive, gorgeously written, pungent and haunting and gripping. This is the kind of world that, in all its strangeness, feels very real: you inhabit it rather than read about it. The dragon Faynr: chef's kiss! Can't wait for the next volume."
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