Adam Charles Roberts FRSL (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. He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
- Salt (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)
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)
- Anticopernicus (2011)
- Adam Robots (2013)
- “Trademark Bugs: A Legal History”, Reach for Infinity (2014)
- Saint Rebor (2015)
- Bethany (2016)
- The Lake Boy (2018)
- The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019)
- The Compelled (2020)
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)
- 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)
- Tolkien: A Look Behind “The Lord of the Rings” (with Lin Carter) (updated edition 2003)
- 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)
Poetry
- Wodwo Vergil (2018)
Non-fiction
Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014)
