Adam Roberts (British writer)

Adam Roberts
Roberts at Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France)
Born	Adam Roberts (1965-30-06) 6 June 1965
Pen name	A.R.R.R. Roberts A3R Roberts Don Brine
Occupation	academic, author, critic and novelist
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British
Education	PhD
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen Cambridge University
Genres	science fiction, parody
Notable work(s)	Salt, Gradisil, Yellow Blue Tibia By Light Alone
Notable award(s)	Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2001 Salt 2007 Gradisil 2010 Yellow Blue Tibia
www.adamroberts.com

For other people with this name, see Adam Roberts.

Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine.

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. 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 Yellow Blue Tibia. He was shortlisted for The Kitschies Red Tentacle for Jack Glass.

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)
• New Model Army (2010)
• By Light Alone (2011)
• Jack Glass (2012, ISBN 0-575-12762-3)
• 20 Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (Forthcoming – 2013)

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)

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)

Criticism

• Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy (1998)
• Science Fiction: the New Critical Idiom (2000, second edition 2005)
• The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Histories of Literature) (2006)

External links

• Official website
• Academic Biography
• Bibliography at SciFan
• blog at The Valve
• Adam Roberts at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Review of Yellow Blue Tibia by Seamus Sweeney at Nthposition