Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist. In 2018 he was elected vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society.

Career

Roberts has a degree in English from the

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and a Ph.D. from

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on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches

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and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel, ''

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'', in 2007 for '' Gradisil'' and in 2010 for ''Yellow Blue Tibia''. 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. On his website, Roberts states that an ongoing project of his is to write a short story in every science fiction sub-genre. In May 2014, Roberts gave the second annual Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, speaking on the topic of Tolkien and Women.

Published works

Novels

* ''

'' (2000, ) * '' On'' (2001, ) * '' Stone'' (2002, ) * ''Polystom'' (2003, ) * '' The Snow'' (2004) * '' Gradisil'' (2006) * '' Land of the Headless'' (2007) * '' Splinter'' (2007) * ''Swiftly: A Novel'' (2008) * ''Yellow Blue Tibia: A Novel'' (2009, ) * ''New Model Army'' (2010) * ''By Light Alone'' (2011) * ''Jack Glass'' (2012, ) * ''Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea'' (2014) * ''Bête'' (2014, ) * ''The Thing Itself'' (2015) * ''The Real-Town Murders'' (2017) * ''By the Pricking of Her Thumb'' (2018) * ''Haven'' (2018) * ''The Black Prince'' (2018) * '' Purgatory Mount'' (2021) * ''The This'' (2022) * ''The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate'' (2023) * ''Lake of Darkness'' (2024)

Novellas

* ''Park Polar'' (2002) * ''Jupiter Magnified'' (2003) * ''Anticopernicus'' (2011) * ''Bethany'' (2016) * ''The Lake Boy'' (2018) * ''The Man Who Would Be Kling'' (2019) * ''The Compelled'' (2020) * ''Stealing for the Sky'' (2022) * ''The Midas Rain'' (2023) * ''High'' (2024)

Short stories and short story collections

* "S-Bomb" in ''Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory'' (2008, ) * "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History", '' Reach for Infinity'' (2014) * ''Swiftly: Stories'' (2004) * ''Adam Robots'' (2013) * ''Saint Rebor'' (2015) * "The Martian Waste Land", ''Scarlet Traces'' (2019)

Parodies

* '' The Soddit'' (2003, '' The Hobbit'') * ''The McAtrix Derided'' (2004, '' The Matrix'') * ''The Sellamillion'' (2004, '' The Silmarillion'') * ''

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'' (2005, '' Star Wars'') * '' The Va Dinci Cod'' (2005, '' The Da Vinci Code'') * '' Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves'' (2006, ''

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'') * ''I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas '' (2009,

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, A Christmas Carol). * ''The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo'' (2010, '' The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'') * ''I, Soddit: The Autobiography'' (2013, '' The Hobbit'')

Criticism

* ''Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy'' (1998) * ''Science Fiction'' (The New Critical Idiom) (2000, second edition 2005) * ''Fredric Jameson'' (2000) * '' Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings'' (original version by Lin Carter) (Roberts updated the text for the 2003 edition) * ''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.) * ''H G Wells: A Literary Life'' (2019) * ''It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of'' (2020) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.)

Career

Published works

Novels

Novellas

Short stories and short story collections

Parodies

Criticism

Poetry

Other non-fiction

References

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