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Adam Roberts

(b.1966)

aka A R R R Roberts

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.

Genres: Science Fiction, Historical, Horror, Fantasy

Series

Real-Town Murders
1. The Real-Town Murders (2017)
2. By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018)

Novels

   Salt (2000)
   On (2001)
   Stone (2002)
   Polystom (2003)
   The Snow (2004)
   Gradisil (2005)
   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)

Omnibus

The Parodies Collection (2013)

Collections

Chapbooks

Park Polar (2001)
Jupiter Magnified (2002)

Novellas

   The Lake Boy (2018)
   The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
   Sammy (2022)

Series contributed to

Imaginings
9. Saint Rebor (2015)

Tales Of The Aftermath
2. Haven (2018)

Anthologies edited

Classic Science Fiction Stories (2022) (with Various)

Non fiction

   Science Fiction (1989)
   The History of Science Fiction (2005)
   The Riddles of the Hobbit (2013)
   Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014)
   Sibilant Fricative (2014)
   Landor's Cleanness (2014)

Awards

	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2001) : Salt
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2007) : Gradisil
	Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (2007) : Gradisil
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2010) : Yellow Blue Tibia
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2010) : Yellow Blue Tibia
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2011) : New Model Army
	British Science Fiction Association Best Book winner (2012) : Jack Glass
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (2013) : Jack Glass
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2015) : Bete
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2016) : The Thing Itself

Adam Roberts recommends

The Human Abstract (2004)
George Mann
"George Mann has forgotten more about science fiction than most people will ever know, and he puts his expertise and his considerable narrative skills to excellent use in this canny, highly readable tale."

The Memoirs of a Master Forger (2008)
William Heaney (Graham Joyce)
"How sheerly pleasurable it is to sink into a really well built, expertly handled novel. Superb stuff."

Fenrir (2011)
(Wolfsangel, book 2)
M D Lachlan
"Simply the most exciting, visceral and deeply imaginative writer of fantasy working today."

The Promise of the Child (2015)
(Amaranthine Spectrum, book 1)
Tom Toner
"Humming with energy, this is space opera like you've never seen it before: absolutely brilliant."

Hope Island (2020)
Tim Major
"An exceptional writer."

The Last Blade Priest (2022)
W P Wiles
"A novel of marvellous scope and inventiveness: fantasy is rarely as smart, immersive or scintillant as this."

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