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Adam Roberts is the author of a growing number of science fiction novels, short stories, essays and other writings. This site contains not just his blog, but everything you could ever want to know about everything Adam has ever published. And more...

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Category Archive: Lit Crit

BBC History Magazine on History of SF

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Start a post title with an abbreviation + the-word-History, end it palindromically, with the-word-History + an abbreviation, that's my motto. This is courtesy of Stephen Baxter, a giant of contemporary sf (to my Lilliputianiarity) and a friend to boot: he is, I'm guessing, a subscriber to BBC History Magazine, and he spotted this in [...]

The Guardian reviews the Palgrave History of SF

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

P D Smith, in today's Saturday Guardian review:
According to Margaret Atwood, science fiction is a pulp genre about "intelligent squids in space". Which is strange because, as Adam Roberts says, her best three novels are part of the SF genre. Oryx and Crake (2003) is "an unembarrassed entry into a dazzlingly realised dystopian imaginary world", [...]

Palgrave History of Science Fiction: paperback

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Here's the cover for the forthcoming paperback edition of my Palgrave History of Science of Fiction:

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Blogging update

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

The Valve, where I am one of the authors, continues to publish excellent stuff, not least a presently-on-going symposium about the latest book by the excellent Walter Benn Michaels. Which really should grab your attention. Now, having read thoroughly through the 'WBM' event, and if you have the time, and inclination, to delve deeper into [...]