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Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine....

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Adam Roberts (born 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonym
Pseudonym
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s of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine.

He has a degree
Academic degree
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 in English
English studies
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 from the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

 and a PhD
PHD
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 from Cambridge University on Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...

 and the Classics. He teaches English literature
English literature
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 and creative writing
Creative writing
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 at Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...

. Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987...

: in 2001 for his debut novel
Debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...

, Salt
Salt (novel)
Salt is a novel by British science fiction author Adam Roberts.-Plot introduction:Colonists from Earth set out for a distant planet, but during the voyage, a factional skirmish turns into an irrevocable grudge, to play out during the course of their colonisation...

, in 2007 for Gradisil
Gradisil
Gradisil is a science fiction novel by British author Adam Roberts.-Plot summary:Gradisil takes place over several generations of the Gyeroffy family, the novel's timeline spanning from 2059 to the first half of the 22nd century, circa 2130. On these generations hang the novel's basic plots...

and in 2010 for Yellow Blue Tibia.

Novels

  • Salt
    Salt (novel)
    Salt is a novel by British science fiction author Adam Roberts.-Plot introduction:Colonists from Earth set out for a distant planet, but during the voyage, a factional skirmish turns into an irrevocable grudge, to play out during the course of their colonisation...

    (2000, ISBN 0-575-06896-5)
  • On
    On (novel)
    On is the second novel by Adam Roberts. According to the author's website, reviews of the novel were either extremely positive, or extremely negative.-Plot summary:...

    (2001, ISBN 0-575-07176-1)
  • Stone
    Stone (novel)
    Stone, published in 2002, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts.-Setting:Stone is a story about a criminal, Ae, who lives in a utopian society, the 't'T', which is spread across a region of space where the density of interstellar objects is sufficiently low that...

    (2002, ISBN 0-575-07396-9)
  • Polystom (2003, ISBN 0-575-07541-4)
  • The Snow
    The Snow (novel)
    The Snow, published in 2004, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts. It is set in the present day and, latterly, the near future...

    (2004)
  • Gradisil
    Gradisil
    Gradisil is a science fiction novel by British author Adam Roberts.-Plot summary:Gradisil takes place over several generations of the Gyeroffy family, the novel's timeline spanning from 2059 to the first half of the 22nd century, circa 2130. On these generations hang the novel's basic plots...

    (2006)
  • Land of the Headless
    Land of the Headless
    Land of the Headless is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts, published in 2007.-Plot summary:The story focuses upon the experiences of Jon Cavala, a poet on the religiously fundamentalist planet of Pluse...

    (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)

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)

Parodies

  • The Soddit
    The Soddit
    The Soddit or Let's Cash in Again is a 2003 parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, written by A.R.R.R. Roberts. The book jacket states: "Following on from the frankly unlikely success of Bored of the Rings comes a new book from an entirely different author that Tolkien's other masterpiece."The...

    (2003, The Hobbit
    The Hobbit
    The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...

    )
  • The McAtrix Derided (2004, The Matrix
    The Matrix
    The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

    )
  • The Sellamillion (2004, The Silmarillion
    The Silmarillion
    The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R...

    )
  • Star Warped
    Star Warped (novel)
    Star Warped is a farcical 2005 spoof novel by A3r Roberts based on the six Star Wars films.Roberts has previously parodied the works of J.R.R. Tolkien in The Soddit and The Sellamillion.-Plot synopsis:...

    (2005, Star Wars
    Star Wars
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    )
  • The Va Dinci Cod
    The Va Dinci Cod
    The Va Dinci Cod: A Fishy Parody is a parody of the New York Times Bestseller The Da Vinci Code. It was written by British comedian Adam Roberts under the pen name Don Brine . The character names in the novels are reminiscent of the well-known characters: Sophie Nudivue , Robert Donglan , and Curvy...

    (2005, The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code
    The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to...

    )
  • Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves
    Doctor Who spoofs
    The long running science fiction television series Doctor Who has over the years been the subject of many comedy sketches and specially made comedy programmes, from Spike Milligan's "Pakistani Dalek" to the Comic Relief episode Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death...

    (2006, Doctor Who
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

    )
  • I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (2009, Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens
    Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

    , A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...

    ).
  • The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an award-winning crime novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book in the trilogy known as the "Millennium series"....

    )

Criticism

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

External links

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