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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
 
New and upcoming books
January 2024

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High
 
July 2024

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Lake of Darkness
 
Series
Cardboard Box of the Rings (as by A R R R Roberts)
   1. The Soddit (2003)
   The Sellamillion (2004)
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Novels
   Salt (2000)
   On (2001)
   Stone (2002)
   Polystom (2003)
   The Snow (2004)
   The Va Dinci Cod (2005) (as by A R R R Roberts)
   Star Warped (2005) (as by A R R R Roberts)
   Gradisil (2006)
   Doctor Whom (2006) (as by A R R R Roberts)
   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)
   High (2024)
   Lake of Darkness (2024)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Park Polar (2001)
   Jupiter Magnified (2002)
   The Lake Boy (2018)
   The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
   The Midas Rain (2023)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Imaginings
   9. Saint Rebor (2015)
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Non fiction show
 
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Adam Roberts recommends
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Gogmagog (2024)
(Chronicles of Ludwich, book 1)
Steve Beard and Jeff Noon
"Marvellous stuff: a great flowing river of a novel, endlessly inventive, gorgeously written, pungent and haunting and gripping. This is the kind of world that, in all its strangeness, feels very real: you inhabit it rather than read about it. The dragon Faynr: chef's kiss! Can't wait for the next volume."
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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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Anthologies containing stories by Adam Roberts
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Reports From the Deep End (2023)
Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski and Rick McGrath
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Shoreline of Infinity 32 (2022)
(Shoreline of Infinity, book 32)
edited by
Teika Marija Smits
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No More Heroes (2021)
edited by
Ian Whates

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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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