Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts.

Adam Roberts (* 1965 in London ) is a British writer and literary scholar .

Life

Roberts received his PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics . Since 1991 he has been Professor of 19th Century British Literature at Royal Holloway College, University of London . In addition to the poetry of the 19th century, his research also deals with science fiction literature.

In addition to his scientific work, he is also practically involved in science fiction literature: In 2000, his first science fiction novel Salt was published . Since then he has published several other science fiction novels and short stories, as well as a volume of short stories. He also published parodies of popular science fiction and fantasy works.

Roberts' science fiction novels cannot be strictly classified as hard or soft science fiction - although the writing style, chapter introductions, etc. may occasionally point to the former - because they usually have elements from both branches of the genre: Roberts often goes from one certain technological basic idea, which is consistently further developed in the course of a novel, whereby the effects on people and society are also described. On dealing with the idea of how it would be living in a world that is not in the one on the floor, but hanging on a wall; Polystom takes place in a universe in which space is not empty and thus balloon flights between neighboring worlds are possible; and The Snow shows what we could do if it suddenly doesn't stop snowing.

Awards

• 2013: British SF Association Award , best novel Jack Glass
• 2013: John W. Campbell Memorial Award , best novel Jack Glass
• 2016: British SF Association Award, best non-fiction book Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014

Works

Science fiction novels

• Salt , Gollancz, 2000, ISBN 1-85798-787-X .
  • German: Sternennebel , 2006, Heyne, ISBN 3-453-52044-0 ,
• On , Gollancz, 2001, ISBN 0-575-07299-7 .
• Stone , Gollancz, 2002, ISBN 0-575-07396-9 .
  • German: Sternenstaub , Heyne, 2006, ISBN 3-453-53072-1 ,
• Polystom , Gollancz, 2003, ISBN 0-575-07541-4 .
  • German: Sternensturm , Heyne, 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-52290-9
• The Snow , Gollancz, 2004, ISBN 0-575-07651-8
• Gradisil , Gollancz, 2006, ISBN 0-575-07631-3
• Land of the Headless , Gollancz, 2007, ISBN 0-575-07799-9 .
• Splinter , Solaris, 2007, ISBN 978-1844164905 .
• Swiftly , Gollancz, 2008, ISBN 978-0575075894 .
• Yellow Blue Tibia , Gollancz, 2009, ISBN 978-0575083561 .
• I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas , Gollancz, 2009, ISBN 978-0575091542 .
  • German: Scrooge - A Zombie Christmas Tale , Bastei Lübbe, 2012, ISBN 3-404-16742-2 .
• New Model Army , Gollancz, 2010, ISBN 978-0575083608 .
• The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo , Gollancz, 2010, ISBN 978-0575100916 .
• By Light Alone , Gollancz, 2011, ISBN 978-0575083646 .
• Jack Glass , Gollancz, 2012, ISBN 978-0575127623 .
• Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea , Gollancz, 2014, ISBN 978-0575134423 .
• Bête , Gollancz, 2014, ISBN 978-0-575-12768-5 .
• The Thing Itself , Gollancz, 2015, ISBN 978-0575127739 .
• The Real-Town Murders , Gollancz, 2017, ISBN 978-1473221468 .
• By the Pricking of Her Thumb , Gollancz, 2018, ISBN 1-4732-2149-8 .
• Haven: Tales Of The Aftermath , Solaris, 2018, ISBN 1-7810-8566-8 .
• The Black Prince , Unbound, 2018, ISBN 978-1783526475 .

Parodies

As A3R Roberts:

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

As ARRR Roberts:

• The Soddit , Gollancz, 2003, ISBN 0-575-07554-6 .
  • German: Der kleine Hobbnix - Die Tolkien-Parodie , Heyne, 2004, ISBN 3-453-87947-3 .
• The Sellamillion , Gollancz, 2004, ISBN 0-575-07611-9 .
  • German: Das Stiehlnemillion - Die Tolkien-Parodie , Heyne, 2005, ISBN 3-453-87947-3 .
• Cardboard Box of the Rings: The Soddit, The Sellamillion, Bored of the Rings (anthology), Gollancz, 2004, ISBN 978-0575076570 .
• Doctor Whom , 2006, Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-07928-2
• The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again , Orbit, 2012, ISBN 978-0316213950 .

As The Robertski Brothers:

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

As Don Brine (ARRR Roberts):

• The Va Dinci Cod , Gollancz, 2005, ISBN 0-575-07719-0 .
  • German: Sapperlot! The Va-Dinci Conspiracy , Heyne, 2006, ISBN 3-453-59014-7 .

Novellas

• Park Polar , 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, Nightshade Books, ISBN 1-892389-71-1

Non-fiction

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

literature

• Sascha Mamczak : "There have to be authors who let everything go down the drain!" A conversation with Adam Roberts. In: The Science Fiction Year 2011, ed. by Sascha Mamczak, Sebastian Pirling and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich 2011, pp. 299–313.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adam Roberts in the catalog of the German National Library
• Adam Roberts in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Adam Roberts at Open Library
• Adam Roberts in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Adam Roberts' website as a writer
• Adam Roberts' website as a literary scholar