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Adam Roberts


UK flag (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 Mystery, Historical, Horror, Fantasy
 
Novels
   Salt (2000)
   On (2001)
   Stone (2002)
   Polystom (2003)
   The Snow (2004)
   Gradisil (2006)
   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)
   Lake of Darkness (2024)
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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)
   Stories of Hope and Wonder (2020) (with others)
   Reports From the Deep End (2023) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
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Chapbooks
   Park Polar (2001)
   Jupiter Magnified (2002)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Lake Boy (2018)
   The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
   The Midas Rain (2023)
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
Imaginings
   9. Saint Rebor (2015)
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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


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Three Eight One (2024)
Aliya Whiteley
"A brain-charging voyage through the present and the future, a novel that shepherds the reader out and then brings her back in, changing her in the process. It's like Kafka rewrote Pale Fire as a science-fictional novel. A Pilgrim's Progress through a godless world where the pilgrim is Patrick McGoohan's 'Prisoner.' A dream of a book, in several senses: enigmatic, marvellous, utterly original. Whiteley really is one of the most striking and brilliant writers working today."
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Once a Monster (2023)
Robert Dinsdale
"What an extraordinary and wonderful achievement this novel is! I was gripped, and thrilled, and touched, and above all I was completely swept into the magic of the book . . . And the scope of the thing! Such a broad chronological range, such sweep, all with the lightest touch. Just astonishing."
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Shark Heart (2023)
Emily Habeck
"A beautifully written, heart-wringing story about love and change, about moving forward--as a shark always must--and what is lost and what gained as we do so. Habeck has an extraordinary command of her writerly instrument, crafting sentence after sentence that feel effortless and yet are eloquent and penetrating and superb. This is the highlight of my reading-year so far."
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The Strange (2023)
Nathan Ballingrud
"So I settled down yesterday evening to make a start on this, and when it got going I found I couldn't stop. Very readable, compelling storytelling, a wonderfully engaging central character, full of atmosphere and beauty and strangeness. Thoroughly excellent space-western. Written in the spirit of Bradbury's Mars and capturing something of Bradbury's brilliance."
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Neom (2022)
(Central Station)
Lavie Tidhar
"This is Tidhar at his best: the crazily proliferating imagination, the textures, the ideas, the dazzling storytelling. A brilliant portrait of community and its possibilities."

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