Adam Roberts (British writer)
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Adam Roberts FRSL | |
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Born | Adam Roberts 30 June 1965 |
Pen name | A.R.R.R. Roberts A3R Roberts Don Brine |
Occupation | Academic, critic, writer |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | British |
Education | PhD |
Alma mater | University of Aberdeen Cambridge University |
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy, parody |
Notable works | Salt, Gradisil, , , Jack Glass |
Notable awards | BSFA Award for Best Novel 2012 Jack Glass Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2001 Salt 2007 Gradisil 2010 |
Website | |
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Adam Charles Roberts FRSL (born 30 June 1965)[1] is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist. In 2018 he was elected Vice-President of the H.G. Wells Society.
Career[]
He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.[2]
Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel, Salt, in 2007 for Gradisil and in 2010 for . He won both the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, for Jack Glass. It was further shortlisted for The Kitschies Red Tentacle award. His short story "Tollund" was nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Award.[3] On his website, Roberts states that an ongoing project of his is to write a short story in every science fiction sub-genre.[4] Roberts' science fiction has been compared to Lionel Fanthorpe.[5]
In May 2014, Roberts gave the second annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, speaking on the topic of Tolkien and Women.[6]
Published works[]
Novels[]
- Salt (2000, ISBN 0-575-06896-5)
- On (2001, ISBN 0-575-07176-1)
- Stone (2002, ISBN 0-575-07396-9)
- Polystom (2003, ISBN 0-575-07541-4)
- The Snow (2004)
- Gradisil (2006)
- Land of the Headless (2007)
- Splinter (2007)
- Swiftly: A Novel (2008)
- Yellow Blue Tibia: A Novel (2009, ISBN 0-575-08356-5)
- (2010)
- By Light Alone (2011)
- Jack Glass (2012, ISBN 0-575-12763-5)
- Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014)
- Bête (2014, ISBN 978-0-575-12768-5)
- The Thing Itself (2015)
- The Real-Town Murders (2017)
- By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018)[7]
- Haven (2018)
- The Black Prince (2018)
- Purgatory Mount (2021)
Novellas and short story collections[]
- Park Polar (2002)
- Jupiter Magnified (2003)
- Swiftly: Stories (2004)
- "S-Bomb" in Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory (2008, ISBN 0-9802114-0-9)
- Anticopernicus (2011)
- Adam Robots (2013)
- "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History", Reach for Infinity (2014)[8]
- Saint Rebor (2015)
- Bethany (2016)
- The Lake Boy (2018)
- The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
- The Compelled (2020)
Parodies[]
- The Soddit (2003, The Hobbit)
- The McAtrix Derided (2004, The Matrix)
- The Sellamillion (2004, The Silmarillion)
- Star Warped (2005, Star Wars)
- The Va Dinci Cod (2005, The Da Vinci Code)
- Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves (2006, Doctor Who)
- I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (2009, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol).
- The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
- (2013, The Hobbit)
Criticism[]
- Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy (1998)
- Science Fiction: the New Critical Idiom (2000, second edition 2005)
- Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" (with Lin Carter) (updated edition 2003)
- The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Histories of Literature) (2006, second edition 2016)
- The Riddles of The Hobbit (Palgrave Macmillan) (2013)
- Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews (2014)
- Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.)
- It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of (2020) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.)
Poetry[]
- Wodwo Vergil (2018)
Other non-fiction[]
- Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014, ISBN 978-1-4447-9565-3)
References[]
- ^ "Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Adam Roberts". The Guardian. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "2014 Sidewise Award Finalists". Locus. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ Roberts, Adam. "Writing". Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ Roberts, Adam (16 July 2018). Verdadeira História Da Ficção Científica [The True History of Science Fiction] (in Portuguese). Editora Seoman. ISBN 978-8555030741.
- ^ Adam Roberts Lecture Podcast Now Available, The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, 14 May 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ http://www.adamroberts.com/2018/05/24/by-the-pricking-of-her-thumb-cover-re-reveal/[permanent dead link]
- ^ Alexander, Niall (12 June 2014). Jonathan Strahan (ed.). "Step into the Stars: Reach for Infinity". Tor.com. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
External links[]
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- Official website
- Academic Biography
- Bibliography at SciFan
- blog at The Valve
- Adam Roberts at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Review of Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea at Upcoming4.me
- Adam Roberts at Library of Congress Authorities, with 28 catalogue records
- Don Brine at LC Authorities, with 1 record
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
- Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
- English male novelists
- English male short story writers
- English short story writers
- English fantasy writers
- English science fiction writers
- Parodists
- English literary critics
- Science fiction academics
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Writers from London