Adam Roberts FRSL
Roberts at Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France)
Born	Adam Roberts (1965-06-30)30 June 1965 (age 60) London, United Kingdom
Pen name	A.R.R.R. Roberts A3R Roberts Don Brine
Occupation	Academic, critic, writer
Nationality	British
Citizenship	British
Education	PhD
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen Cambridge University
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, parody
Notable works	Salt,Gradisil,Yellow Blue Tibia,By Light Alone,Jack Glass
Notable awards	BSFA Award for Best Novel 2012Jack Glass Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2001Salt 2007Gradisil 2010Yellow Blue Tibia

Adam Charles RobertsFRSL (born 30 June 1965)^[1] is aBritish science fiction and fantasy novelist. In 2018 he was elected vice-president of theH. G. Wells Society.

Born in London, Roberts has a degree inEnglish from theUniversity of Aberdeen and a Ph.D. fromCambridge University onRobert Browning and the Classics. He teachesEnglish literature andcreative writing atRoyal Holloway, University of London.^[2][3]

Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for theArthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel,Salt, in 2007 forGradisil and in 2010 forYellow Blue Tibia.^[4] He won both the 2012BSFA Award for Best Novel, and theJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award, forJack Glass. It was further shortlisted forThe Kitschies Red Tentacle award. His short story "Tollund" was nominated for the 2014Sidewise Award.^[5] On his website, Roberts states that an ongoing project of his is to write a short story in every science fiction sub-genre.^[6]

In May 2014, Roberts gave the second annualTolkien Lecture atPembroke College, Oxford, speaking on the topic ofwomen inThe Lord of the Rings.^[7] He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Literature in 2018.^[8]

• 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^[9] (2009,ISBN 0-575-08356-5)
• New Model Army (2010)
• By Light Alone (2011)
• Jack Glass (2012,ISBN 0-575-12763-5)
• Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014)
• Bête (2014,ISBN 978-0-575-12768-5)
• The Thing Itself (2015)
• The Real-Town Murders (2017)
• By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018)^[10]
• Haven (2018)
• The Black Prince (2018)
• Purgatory Mount (2021)
• The This (2022)
• The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate (2023)
• Lake of Darkness (2024)

• 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)

• "S-Bomb" inRiffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory (2008,ISBN 0-9802114-0-9)
• "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History",Reach for Infinity (2014)^[11]
• Swiftly: Stories (2004)
• Adam Robots (2013)
• Saint Rebor (2015)
• "The Martian Waste Land",Scarlet Traces (2019)^[12]

• 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)
• I, Soddit: The Autobiography (2013,The Hobbit)

• 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 byLin Carter) (Roberts updated the text for the 2003 edition)^[13]
• 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 theBSFA 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 theBSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.)
• Roberts, Adam (2025).Fantasy: a short history. London New York Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing.ISBN 978-1-350-40785-5.

• Wodwo Vergil (2018)

• Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014,ISBN 978-1-4447-9565-3)

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• Academic Biography at RoyalHolloway.ac.ukArchived 23 March 2017 at theWayback Machine
• Adam Roberts at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Adam Roberts atLibrary of Congress, with 34 library catalogue records
• Don Brine at LC Authorities, with 1 record
• The Valve: A Literary Organ (blog, archived December 2013)
• Bibliography at SciFan (archived December 2014)

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• Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
• Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
• English male novelists
• English male short story writers
• English short story writers
• English fantasy writers
• English science fiction writers
• British parodists
• Parody novelists
• English literary critics
• Science fiction academics
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• Writers from London
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature

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