Keith Roberts

Keith John Kingston Roberts ( born September 20, 1935 in Kettering, Northamptonshire; † 5 October 2000 in Salisbury, Wiltshire ) was a British science fiction author and illustrator. He also published under the pseudonyms Alistair Bevan, John Kingston, and David Stringer.

Life

Keith Roberts studied art and earned a diploma in Design 1956, then attended the Leicester College of Arts. He worked a long time as a graphic designer in the advertising industry, an area to which he remained faithful even later. In the 1960s he was involved in the production of animated films and entered as a cover artist in British SF magazines in appearance. Roberts' first two short stories he published in 1964 in the British SF magazine Science Fantasy, in which he was editor in 1966 (it was called at that time pulses). More stories by Roberts appeared in a row in the magazine New Worlds.

The first novel, The Furies (1966, dt The Neptune test, Goldmann ) was followed two years later probably be the most important novel: Pavane, sold to German both under the original title as well as the momentous assassination of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I.

In Pavane it comes to an alternative world, was murdered in the Queen Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada was victorious. England is therefore marked in a row in the 20th century through the reign of the Catholic Church.

For his novel Grainne, as well as the short stories Kitemaster and Kaeti and the Hangman Keith Roberts won the BSFA Award.

In 1990, his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis was made, ten years later, he succumbed to the effects of the disease.

Bibliography

Kaeti trilogy

  • Kaeti 's Apocalypse, 1986
  • Kaeti and Companym, 1986
  • Kaeti on Tour, 1992

Single novels

  • The Neptune test, 1967, Goldmann, The Furies, 1966
  • The momentous assassination of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I also: Pavane, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30393-8, Pavane, 1968
  • The boat of fate, Marion von Schröder Verlag, Dusseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-811-82445-7, The boat of fate, 1971 ( historical novel )
  • The witch Anita, 1996, ISBN 3-423-12127-0, Anita, 1970
  • Homo shape, 1980, ISBN 3-404-22025-0, The Inner Wheel, 1970
  • MollyZero, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06216-7, MollyZero, 1980
  • Dragon pilot, 1991, ISBN 3-453-05406-7, Kiteworld, 1985
  • Gráinne, 1987
  • The Road to Paradise, 1988
  • The Event 1989

Story Collections

  • Machines and humans, 1980, ISBN 3-442-23343-7, Machines and Men, 1973
  • The chalk giants, 1981, ISBN 3-404-22038-2, The Chalk Giants, 1974
  • The new gods, 1979, ISBN 3-442-23327-5, The Grain Kings, 1976
  • The Passing of the Dragons 1977
  • The revolution of windmills, 1981, ISBN 3- 442-23378 -X, Ladies from Hell, 1979
  • The Lordly Ones, 1986
  • A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987
  • Winter Wood: And Other Hauntings, 1989

Non-fiction

  • Irish Encounters, 1988
  • The Natural History of the P. H., 1988
  • Lemady: Episodes of a Writer 's Life, 1997

Criticism

  • Karsten Kruschel about dragons pilots: " The literary quality of Keith Roberts is based less on original SF ideas, clever gimmicks or action- stressed tension. He is a sovereign signatory plastic landscapes and a romantic storyteller enthralling stories, which are usually round off only in the mind of the reader and complete; here you can feel the artist who is also known for its unconventional cover in England, " " A strange, interesting, at the same time repulsive and fascinating poetic world is exfoliated by Roberts and surrendered an inevitable doom -. hoping the reader would own demons if not less annoying, yet perhaps understandable. "
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