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Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is also the author of more than a dozen science fiction novels: his most recent, Jack Glass (2012) won the BSFA and Campbell awards for the year”s best science fiction novel. He has published a number of critical and academic works on science fiction, 19th-century and other topics.




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Adam Roberts: The History of Science Fiction
This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to …
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Anthony Burgess & Adam Roberts: The Black Prince
‘I’m working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward III’s time … The fourteenth century of my novel will be mainly evoked in terms of smell and visceral feelings, and it will …
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Adam Roberts: Sternennebel
Eine neue Heimat Nebel-2 ist alles andere als ein Paradies, und dennoch brechen Kolonisten von der Erde zu diesem weit entfernten Planeten auf, um ihn zu besiedeln. Zunächst verläuft alles glatt, …
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Adam Roberts: Sternenstaub
Nichts zu verlieren Ae wird für ein Verbrechen bestraft, das in der zukünftigen Gesellschaft, in der er lebt, nur noch selten vorkommt: Mord. Nanotechnologie macht es beinahe unmöglich, einen Men …
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Adam Roberts: Sternensturm
Nichts ist, wie es scheint Stellen Sie sich ein Universum vor, das nach ganz anderen physikalischen Regeln funktioniert. In dem die Planeten so eng aneinander liegen, dass man mit Flugzeugen und …
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Adam Roberts: Landor’s Cleanness
Cleanness, both in the sense of a neoclassical stylistic purity and of an individual moral and political probity, was centrally important to Walter Savage Landor’s writing, both in his prose and …
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Timothy Garton Ash & Rory McCarthy: Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring
Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. …
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Timothy Garton Ash & Rory McCarthy: Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring
Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. …
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Vaughan Lowe & Adam Roberts: United Nations Security Council and War
This is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council’s part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945. Both during and after the Cold War the …
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Vaughan Lowe & Adam Roberts: United Nations Security Council and War
This is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council’s part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945. Both during and after the Cold War the …
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Adam Roberts: Science Fiction
<P><EM>Science Fiction</EM> is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly …
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Adam Roberts: Fredric Jameson
An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today’s most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson’s writing …
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Mark Bould & Andrew M. Butler: Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical …
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Adam Roberts: Romantic and Victorian Long Poems
First published in 1999, this is a guide which provides easy access to a fairly complete range of the long poetry written in the Romantic and Victorian periods: epics, narrative poems, verse-novels a …
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Adam Roberts: Romantic and Victorian Long Poems
First published in 1999, this is a guide which provides easy access to a fairly complete range of the long poetry written in the Romantic and Victorian periods: epics, narrative poems, verse-novels a …
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€40.07
Adam Roberts: Doctor Whom
Doctor Whom, the grammatically correct Time Lord (or should that be Time Lord? Or is it Timelord?) has come to save our universe from the terror’s of sloppy syntax and bad grammar. With his intrepid …
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Adam Roberts: Yellow Blue Tibia
Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only …
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Adam Roberts: Swiftly
It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slaves – the finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of minature engineering; even Babbage’s computing device has …
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Adam Roberts: Stone
Sprung from a prison in the centre of a star, the universe’s last criminal is employed to kill the population of a planet. It is a crime that will tear apart an interstellar utopia. Keeping ahead of …
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Adam Roberts: New Model Army
Adam Roberts’ new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war – a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the world’s first truly democratic army to take on the British army …
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Adam Roberts: I Am Scrooge
Award nominated SF author Adam Roberts takes on Dickens in this festive zombie gorefest.Marley was dead. To begin with.The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards …
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Adam Roberts: I, Soddit
Adam Roberts’ The Soddit was a Sunday Times bestseller and sold 150, 000 copies. But what happened to the Soddit after his adventures, and after his account of them was published …
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Adam Roberts: By Light Alone
In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair, hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich …
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Adam Roberts: Gradisil
Gradisil is a multi-generational story of murder, betrayal and revenge. It is told through the eyes of three characters and against a background where mankinds rush into space has faded away leaving …
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Adam Roberts: Land Of The Headless
THE LAND OF THE HEADLESS is set in a far future where mankind has taken his religious dogma and the divsions that result from it out into space.On a planet where society is shaped by a strict …
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Adam Roberts: Salt
Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two communities as they travel out to a new planet, colonise it, then destroy themselves when the tensions turn into outright …
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Adam Roberts: On
Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything he knows. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for …
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Adam Roberts: Polystom
Adam Roberts’ fourth novel is his most ambitious yet. In a feat of extraordinary world building he creates a universe where a breathable atmosphere extends out between the planets, where aristocrats …
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Adam Roberts: Soddit
Bingo Sac Grabbins is asked by the coughing wizard Gandef and some (oddly Welsh) dwarves to help them relieve the great dragon Smug of his gold.SF author and Tolkien scholar Adam Roberts has written …
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Adam Roberts: Sellamillion
THE SELLAMILLION is NOT a parody of Tolkien’s THE SILMARILLION. That would be pointless because although all Tolkien fans have a copy, only three of them have read past page 40.It is, however, a …
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Adam Roberts: Va Dinci Cod
Something fishy is going on in the world of artistic scholarship. How can there possibly be a link between the hidden cod of Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings and the over fishing of the North Atlantic …
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Adam Roberts: Dragon with the Girl Tattoo
Lizbreath Salamander is young and beautiful. Her scales have an iridescent sheen, her wings arch proudly, her breath has a tang of sulfur. And on her back a tattoo of a mythical creature: a girl.But …
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Adam Roberts: Star Warped
A long time ago in galaxy far, far away a really quite good SF film, a sort of western in space, was launched. The special effects were pretty shoddy but it did have some quite good actors in it. And …
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Adam Roberts: Jack Glass
WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVELJack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be …
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Adam Roberts: B te
A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his right to kill with the compliant animal. He begins to suspect he may be about to commit murder. But kills anyway …It began when the …
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Adam Roberts: Thing Itself
Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters’ The Thing.Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research …
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Adam Roberts: Adam Robots
Gathered together for the first time from a major publisher – a collection of short stories by Adam Roberts. Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry …
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Adam Roberts: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea
It is 1958 and France’s first nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, one of the Navy’s most experienced captains and …
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Adam Roberts: Science Fiction
Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice …
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Adam Roberts: Science Fiction
Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice …
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€28.53
Adam Roberts: Fredric Jameson
An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today’s most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson’s writing …
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Adam Roberts: Fredric Jameson
An invaluable introduction to the life and work of one of today’s most important cultural critics. Studied on most undergraduate literary and cultural studies courses, Fredric Jameson’s writing …
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€27.91
Mark Bould & Andrew M. Butler: Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical …
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€67.48
Mark Bould & Andrew M. Butler: Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical …
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€67.06
Mark Bould & Andrew Butler: Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction
Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction is a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre. Diverse groups within the science fiction commun …
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Mark Bould & Andrew Butler: Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction
Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction is a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre. Diverse groups within the science fiction commun …
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Adam (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Roberts & Dominik Zaum: Selective Security
In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that the UN Security Council embodies a necessa …
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Adam Roberts & Dominik Zaum: Selective Security
In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that the UN Security Council embodies a necessa …
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Adam Roberts: Get Started in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING AWESOME AND AMAZING FICTION FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION.This is an authoritative and engaging introduction to writing science fiction and fantasy for the complete beginner. …
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Adam Roberts: Parodies Collection
Here, collected together for the first time in e Book (because quite frankly, who would want to carry all of these around as actual books? Imagine the scorn on the bus!) are seven of Adam Roberts’ …
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Adam Roberts: Real-Town Murders
Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy …
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Adam Roberts: By the Pricking of Her Thumb
Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world’s four richest people may be dead – but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the …
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Adam Roberts: Snow
The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel to date.And this is how the world will end …’The snow started falling on the sixth …
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Coleridge: Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819)
A newly edited readers’ edition of Coleridge’s foundational lectures on Shakespeare This volume comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge s 1811-12 Lectures on Shakespeare and …
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Adam Roberts: Superfast, Primetime, Ultimate Nation
India dreams of a glorious future: to be a great power with global influence. And that may soon be within its reach – it has a young, dynamic and increasingly skilled population, a large and fast-gro …
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Adam Roberts: Haven
Young Forktongue Davy has visions; epilepsy, his Ma calls it. He’s barely able to help around the family farm. But something about the lad is attracting attention: the menacing stranger who might be …
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Stephen Baxter & Emma Beeby: Scarlet Traces
It is the dawn of the twentieth century.Following the Martians’ failed invasion of Earth, the British Empire has seized their technology and unlocked its secrets for themselves. It is a Golden Age of …
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Adam Roberts: The Wonga Coup
In March 2004 a group led by Nick Du Toit and former SAS member Simon Mann tried to overthrow the tyrannical Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea. They were working for investors, allegedly …
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Aliette de Bodard & Paul Cornell: Solaris Rising 1.5
Solaris Rising 1.5 continues the exciting new series of SF anthologies from Solaris and editor Ian Whates, with an exclusive ebook!An anthology of nine short stories from some of the most exciting …
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Roberts Adam Roberts: Paris
It is one of the world’s most iconic cities, the center of romance, cuisine, and high culture, a place we are all implored to visit in spring and then forever hold in our hearts: Paris. But behind …
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Adam Roberts: H G Wells
This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fictio …
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Shimon Adaf & Sarah Lotz: Ebrei Contro Zombi
Otto affermati e pluripremiati scrittori ebrei devono rispondere alla domanda senza tempo che nessuno, finora, ha avuto il coraggio di porre: cosa succede quando il Popolo Eletto incontra il Morto …
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Lost Worlds Short Stories
New Authors and collections. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest …
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Adam Roberts: Purgatory Mount
An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height …
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Adam Roberts: Middlemarch
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in …
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Aliette de Bodard & Pat Cadigan: Reach For Infinity
Humanity Among The Stars What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the …
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Sandra Alland & Annie Clarkson: Thought X
Science is always telling stories. Whether in the creation myths of evolution or the Big Bang, or in the eureka moments of science history, narrative just as much as metaphor is a key tool in the …
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Dinesh Allirajah & Lucy Caldwell: Beta-Life
Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are …
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Brian Aldiss & Stephen Baxter: Morphologies
Being short, you might think the story’s structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged …
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Alice Gorman: Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
A pioneering space archaeologist explores artifacts left behind in space and on Earth, from moon dust to Elon Musk’s red sports car.Alice Gorman is a space archaeologist: she examines the artifacts …
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Adam Roberts: This
The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without …
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Gideon Glick & Adam D. Roberts: Give My Swiss Chards to Broadway: The Broadway Lover’s Cookbook
An exhilarating, pun-filled love letter to musicals, with 50 Broadway-inspired recipes. ‘This hilarious book is a gift to every cook and every lover of musical theater.’ — Dorie Greenspan Good f …
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Andrew Bromfield & Adam Roberts: Monday Starts on Saturday
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National …
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Andrew Bromfield & Adam Roberts: Monday Starts on Saturday
Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, …
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Audrey Kurth Cronin & James M. Ludes: Attacking Terrorism
The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Following the horrendous attacks on the World …
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Adam Roberts: Verdadeira História Da Ficção Científica
Numa linguagem acessível e abrangendo uma grande variedade de obras, o crítico e escritor Adam Roberts traça o desenvolvimento da ficção científica desde suas origens até sua atual disseminação na …
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Adam Roberts: Haven
Young Forktongue Davy has visions; epilepsy, his Ma calls it. He’s barely able to help around the family farm. But something about the lad is attracting attention: the menacing stranger who might be …
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