Category Archive: Book News
Previous EntriesThe Lowest Heaven
Thursday, May 9th, 2013That book to which the Robots version of Adam contributed a story? It's The Lowest Heaven, edited by Jared 'The Man' Shurin and Anne 'The Woman' Perry; it'll be launched June 13th and the Royal Observatory are taking pre-orders now. Oh, it's a good collection. It's a very very good collection. Anne Perry's middle name [...]
Bilim Kurgu Tarihi
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013Turkish publisher Bilim ve Gelecek Kitapligi (Google translate leads me to believe the name means: 'the Library of Science and the Future') of Istanbul have just acquired the translation rights to my Palgrave History of Science Fiction. Hurrah!
Publishers Weekly choose Jack Glass as one of their ‘Books of Summer 2013′
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013Which is nice of them. In an interview with PW, Roberts says that he set out to write a new kind of whodunit, where the murderer’s name is revealed on page one yet is still a surprise to the reader at the end. He succeeds admirably with this three-part SF mystery, which just won the [...]
Mechanised Me
Saturday, May 4th, 2013From the latest SFX.
SpecFic 2012
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013Speculative Fiction was released last Thursday (25 April); You can find it in the US for $11.99 and in the UK for £8.99. In addition to my piece on Ayn Rand, it has a wealth of brilliant articles and critical readings. Proceeds from all sales go to Room to Read. So -- c'mon! What's keeping [...]
Strahan (ed), Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 7
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013My contributor copy of this handsome volume, edited by Jonathan Strahan, came through the post today. Some excellent stories therein, but also my own 'What Did Tessimond Tell You?' Actually I'm pretty proud of this tale: formally traditional, but with some (I think) nice touches. It first appeared in Ian Whates' Solaris 1.2. If it [...]
… and you’re back in the room.
Monday, April 15th, 2013There's no graceful way to apologise for falling internet-silent for a long time, so I'll hurry past that, mumbling and looking at the floor. Instead let's concentrate on: NEWS! 1. I won my first ever award! Jack Glass won the BSFA Best Novel award, which thrilled me more than I can easily say. The shortlist [...]
Robots!
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013Buy yours today! (Also available in superrobotic kindle format*). [*'superrobotic' kindle is exactly the same as regular kindle. Value of short stories may go down as well as up. £6.99 in ebook format. Pirates will incur my displeasure.]
Scrooge – Ein Zombie-Weihnachtsmärchen
Friday, December 7th, 2012Sie können kaufen Sie dieses Buch für alle deutschsprachigen Freunde. Ja.
20 Trillion Leagues Under the Sea: Cover
Thursday, December 6th, 2012Amazon have this down for release October 2013; don't know if that's right -- but I do know that (a) the cover is a beauty, m'hearties, and that (b) the book, when it emerges, will be adorned by a plethora of absolutely gorgeous illustrations by Mahendra Singh. Not the cricketer, no. The artist! Really -- [...]
NMA: Movie News
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012I'm delighted that MUSE films have optioned New Model Army. It is, I think, one of my two best novels, one of the things I'm proudest of writing, and although I know full well that only a tiny fraction of books optioned by film production companies ever actually make it to the Big Screen, nonetheless [...]
Overheard
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012Appearing in an anthology of short stories alongside Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi and many others? Really? Why, it appears to be true. And is it for sale? Yes: buy direct from the publishers at that last link, or from amazon here.
Resurrection Engines
Friday, November 9th, 2012Snowbooks say this was published on the 1st Nov, but a little bird tells me the issue date has been moved to the 1st December. Soon, though! Also, the 'sixteen' tales you can see on the other end of that publisher's site link has been distilled down to a more focussed fifteen, as you can [...]
Jack Sticla
Thursday, November 8th, 2012That's (... dacă nu mă înșel ...) the Romanian for Jack Glass. I'm very pleased indeed to announce that a Romanian translation of my novel will be appearing late 2013, perhaps 2014, from the exciting publishing house of Editura Trei. As far as I'm concerned this is one of the most significant things to happen [...]
Tolkiens biggest heroes as are the hobbits have the world conquered
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012It appears I have an essay in this promising looking collection.
Reissue News 2: Soddit
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012The other exciting reissue news is the original A.R.R.R.Roberts title, The Soddit, in this handsome new livery. In two sizes, no less! Two! Soddit and Sodditto.
Reissue News 1. Charles Dickens says
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012... 'buy this book!'. Not really, of course, he's dead. But were he alive today Dickens would surely say: 'wait ... what strange realm is this? How are these carriages drawn through the streets sans horse? What keeps those speeding silver craft in the sky?' and so on. He probably wouldn't say anything about I [...]
Chet for the win
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012Yesterday's rather vulgarly pluggy post went against the grain, rather, if I'm honest. I'll be a touch more circumspect today in this, another post catching up on stuff of mine that has appeared over the summer. The first thing is to direct you to the site of the excellent Pandemonium press, run by good people, [...]
Saucy Jack, he’s a haughty one, saucy Jack, he’s a naughty one
Monday, September 17th, 2012Buy from: amazon.co.uk; other retailers; kobo ebooks. So, how've you been? Yes, yes, it's been a while. I shall keep things more up to date around here from now on, I promise -- starting with this post about my latest novel Jack Glass. This is pure plug. Impure semi-plug and other posts to follow. Anyway, [...]
Forthcoming
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Ian Whates, that excellent man, has just sent this through; the cover-art for the forthcoming Solaris Rising 1.5, including a story from me. Runs, ahem, rings around most short-story-collections cover art.
Adam Robots
Friday, June 22nd, 2012That thing Keats said about a thing of beauty? It applies here. This is the latest iteration of the cover for my forthcoming Collected Short Stories, which Gollancz are putting out next year. It is, in a nutshell, yet another blinder played by the genius people at Blacksheep. I'm very conscious how lucky I have [...]
Resurrection Engines
Monday, April 30th, 2012Nice cover! Who's inside? "The anthology will feature sixteen brand new stories from some of the most exciting names writing in genre fiction today, and will be Steampunk ‘reimaginings’ or ‘retellings’ of classic works of literary fiction. Below is a list of the authors contributing to the book, along with their chosen literary work. "Resurrection [...]
Odd Strange Fantasy
Thursday, February 16th, 2012You wait for ages for a book to come along containing a contribution from yourself, and then three come along all at once. First, the Gollancz Masterworks reissue of Stapledon's Odd John (1935) with a new introduction by Y.T.: Fishbowltastic cover, I think, though of limited relevance to the actual story. Then there's Keith Brooke's [...]
Jack Glass Cover
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012I've known about this for a while, and now that's it's been officially announced (on the Victor Gollancz website) I can go public. This is the cover for Jack Glass; my favourite, I think, of all my covers. To quote Aishwarya (a real person with a twitter account; although also, confusingly, a character in Jack [...]
Ellison, and on, and on
Saturday, January 14th, 2012Through the frontdoor post-hole this morning: my copy of the Gollancz 'SF Masterworks' edition of this great classic of the genre, Edited By Harlan Ellison, by Dan G. Rous Visions. 600 pages of stories that changed science fiction: £9.99 on the back cover (£5.29 from amazon right now, I see), unmissable. This new edition incorporates [...]
Langer’s Science Fiction and Postcolonialism
Monday, December 19th, 2011Here's something to take not of (erm, '... of which to take note') if you're interested in SF. The brilliant Jessica Langer's brilliant Science Fiction and Postcolonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) is now available. Three things you should do. 1. Buy a copy. 2. Check out io9.com tomorrow (Tuesday, around 10 AM North American time), who [...]
Adam Robots
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Luke Yexley is a talented individual presently doing an A-Level in design. As part of his coursework, and in consultation with me, he has designed a cover for a collection of my short stories. And here's the result -- very nice, I think. I'd suggest you click-to-embiggen the above brother-of-simon Jay Pegg, and decide for [...]
Solaris Rising
Thursday, November 10th, 2011After three previous volumes (two of which contained stories by me) Solaris is rising again, thanks to the metaphorical yeast of Ian Whates, that excellent individual. My contribution this time is a story called 'Shall I Tell You The Trouble With Time Travel?' In this story, I tell you, the reader, the trouble with time [...]
Jahr Jahr Binks
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011Sascha Mamczak, Wolfgang Jeschke (eds) Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 (Heyne 2011) -- Es kam in der Post. Es war groß, sehr groß und gefüllt mit SF - inklusive einem Interview mit "Adam Roberts" von Sascha Mamczak. Voon. Der. Bar. (Seriously -- 1312 pages! How do they do it? Amazing)
SFE3
Saturday, October 15th, 2011Very exciting: the long-awaited, much-expanded 3rd edition of the genre's standard reference work, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (edited John Clute, Peter Nicholls and David Langford) has at last gone live -- or at least, its Beta edition has (you can find out what the 'beta edition' is, here). I've made some miniscule contribution to [...]
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