Adam Roberts (British writer)

Adam Roberts (born 1965 in London ) is a British writer and literary critic.

Life

Roberts earned his doctorate at Cambridge University on the subject of Robert Browning and the Classics. Since 1991 he has been Professor of British 19th-century literature at Royal Holloway College, University of London. In his research, he has been out with the poetry of the 19th century with science-fiction literature.

In addition to his scientific work, he also deals with the practical science-fiction literature: in 2000, his first science fiction novel Salt appeared. Since then he has published several more science fiction novels and short stories, and a book of short stories. He also published parodies of popular works of science fiction and fantasy.

Roberts' science fiction novels can not be assigned strictly to the hard or soft science fiction - although writing style, chapter introductions, etc. occasionally may rather point to the former - as they usually have elements of both branches of the genre: Roberts often assumes a certain technological basic idea of which is further developed in the course of a novel, taking also the effects on people and society are described. On dealing with the idea of ​​how it would be living in a world in which one is not on the ground, but hangs on a wall; Polystom plays in a universe in which space is not empty of air and thus ballooning between adjacent worlds are possible; The Snow and shows how it could endure us if there is suddenly no longer stops snowing.

Works

Science fiction novels

• Nebula, 2006, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-52044-0, Salt, 2000, Gollancz, ISBN 1-85798-787- X
• On Gollancz, 2001, ISBN 0-575-07299-7
• Stardust, 2006, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-53072-1, Stone, 2002, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07396-9
• Starstorm, 2007 Heyne, ISBN 978-3-453-52290-9, Polystom, 2003, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07541-4
• The Snow, 2004, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07651-8
• Gradisil, 2006, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07631-3
• Land of the Headless, 2007, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07799-9
• Splinter, 2007
• Swiftly, 2008
• Yellow Blue Tibia, 2009
• Scrooge - A Zombie Christmas tale, 2012, ISBN 3-404-16742-2, I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas, 2009
• New Model Army, 2010
• The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo, 2010
• By Light Alone, 2011
• Jack Glass, 2012

Parodies

As A3R Roberts:

• Star Warped - The Star Wars parody, 2005, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-53065-9, Star Warped, 2004, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07688-7

As A.R.R.R. Roberts:

• The small Hobbnix - The Tolkien parody, 2004, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-87947-3, The Soddit, 2003, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07554-6
• Cardboard Box of the Rings: The Soddit, The Sella million, Bored of the Rings, 2004 ( anthology )
• The Stiehlnemillion - The Tolkien parody, 2005, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-87947-3, The Sella million, 2004, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07611-9
• Doctor Whom, 2006, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07928-2
• The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again, 2012

As The Robertski Brothers:

• The McAtrix derided, 2004, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07667-4

When Don Brine (English as A.R.R.R. Roberts):

• Goodness! The Va - Dinci conspiracy, 2006, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-59014-7, The Va Dinci Cod, 2005, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07719-0

Short Stories

• Polar Park, 2001 PS Publishing, ISBN 1-902880-28-5
• Jupiter Magnified, 2002 PS Publishing, ISBN 1-902880-56-0

Short story collection

• Swiftly: Stories that Never Were and Might Not Be, 2004, Night Shade Books, ISBN 1-892389-71-1

Non-fiction

• Science Fiction: The New Critical Idiom, 1989
• Robert Browning Revisited, 1997, Twayne, ISBN 0-8057-4590-4
• Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy, 1998 ( Rodopi, ISBN 90-420-0306-5 )
• Romantic and Victorian Long Poems: A Guide, 1999 ( Ashgate, ISBN 1-85928-156-7 )
• Science Fiction, 2000, ( Routledge, ISBN 0-415-19204-8 )
• Fredric Jameson, 2000, ( Routledge, ISBN 0-415-21523-4 )
• The History of Science Fiction, 2005