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Adam Roberts

Roberts, Adam Charles

June 30, 1965 (age 60)

Birth place: Croydon, London, England, UK

220 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 1999 4 Essay Letter (Interzone #140) Interzone, February 1999
2000 28|28.1 Review Salt Nova Express, Fall/Winter 2000
2000 124 Review Science Fiction Foundation, #80 Autumn 2000
July 2000 Short Fiction Salt (excerpt) infinity plus, July 2000
November 2000 61 Review Salt Locus, #478 November 2000
November 2000 29 Review Salt Vector 214
December 2000 54 Review Salt Interzone, December 2000
2001 105 Review Salt Foundation, #82 Summer 2001
August 2001 137 Review Salt Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2001
September 2001 25 Interview A Wizard of the Vertical Interzone, September 2001
September 2001 32 Review On Vector 219
October 2001 58 Review On Interzone, October 2001
2002 36 Review On Nova Express, Summer 2002
March 2002 14 Review Park Polar Locus, #494 March 2002
April 2002 Short Fiction Swiftly Sci Fiction, April 3, 2002
May 2002 40|40.2 Review Park Polar Science Fiction Chronicle, #224 May 2002
June 2002 57 Review Park Polar Interzone, June-July 2002
August 2002 138 Review On Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2002
September 2002 31 Review On Vector 225
September 2002 25 Review Stone Vector 225
October 2002 29 Review Stone Locus, #501 October 2002
October 2002 40|40.2 Review Stone Chronicle, #229 October 2002
November 2002 59 Short Fiction The Imperial Army Spectrum SF, #9 November
December 2002 134 Review Park Polar Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2002
December 2002 63 Review Stone 3SF #2, December 2002
May 2003 35 Review Stone Vector 229
June 2003 18 Review Polystom The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 2003
July 2003 27 Review Polystom Locus, #510 July 2003
September 2003 29 Review Jupiter Magnified Vector 231
October 2003 233 Review Stone Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2003
November 2003 50 Review Jupiter Magnified Locus, #514 November 2003
November 2003 29 Review Polystom Vector 232
November 2003 60 Review Polystom Interzone, November-December 2003
2004 124 Review Polystom Foundation, #91 Summer 2004
2004 11 Short Fiction Roads Were Burning Postscripts, #1 Spring
January 2004 80 Interview An Interview with Samuel R. Delany Argosy Magazine, January-February 2004
January 2004 50 Review Polystom Interzone, Spring 2004
July 2004 132 Review Jupiter Magnified Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2004
August 2004 29 Review Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be Locus, #523 August 2004
September 2004 36 Review Polystom Vector 237
October 2004 Review Swiftly Realms of Fantasy, October 2004
October 2004 27 Review The Snow Locus, #525 October 2004
November 2004 29 Review The Snow Vector 238
2005 91 Short Fiction And Future King ... Postscripts, Summer 2005
May 2005 5 Review Cloud Atlas The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
May 2005 4 Review Iron Council The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
May 2005 6 Review Market Forces The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
May 2005 4 Review River of Gods The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
May 2005 1 Essay The Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist 2005 The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
May 2005 7 Review The System of the World The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
May 2005 6 Review The Time Traveler's Wife The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2005
November 2005 36 Review Snow Vector 244
2006 130 Review The History of Science Fiction Foundation, #98 Autumn 2006
March 2006 138 Review The Snow Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2006
May 2006 25 Review Gradisil Locus, #544 May 2006
May 2006 Review Gradisil Strange Horizons, 22 May 2006
July 2006 7 Essay A Brief Survey Vector 248
July 2006 27 Review Gradisil Vector 248
July 2006 52 Review Gradisil Interzone, July-August 2006
July 2006 Review Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories Strange Horizons, 31 July 2006
July 2006 54 Review The History of Science Fiction Interzone, July-August 2006
July 2006 32 Review The History of Science Fiction Locus, #546 July 2006
July 2006 Review The History of Science Fiction Strange Horizons, 17 July 2006
October 2006 10 Review The History of Science Fiction SFRA Review #278
November 2006 Review Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Strange Horizons, 6 November 2006
2007 97 Review Splinter Foundation, #101 Winter 2007
January 2007 Essay 2006 in Review Strange Horizons, 1 January 2007
January 2007 24 Review Gradisil SFRA Review #279
January 2007 Review Resplendent Strange Horizons, 1 January 2007
February 2007 Review Against the Day Strange Horizons, 19 February 2007
March 2007 24 Essay ... a Million Clutes Screaming 'Haecceity!'... Vector 251
March 2007 19 Essay Liebniz's Fix-Ups: Stephen Baxter's 'Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four' as Case Study Vector 251
April 2007 Review Brasyl Strange Horizons, 30 April 2007
April 2007 Review Gradisil Strange Horizons, 16 April 2007
April 2007 Essay Sunshine (movie review) Strange Horizons, 23 April 2007
June 2007 4 Essay 25 IZ (25 Years of Interzone) Interzone, June 2007
July 2007 31 Review Land of the Headless Locus, #558 July 2007
July 2007 Review The Children of Húrin Strange Horizons, 16 July 2007
July 2007 Review The Name of the Wind Strange Horizons, 16 July 2007
August 2007 Essay Doctor Who: Series Three (tv series review) Strange Horizons, 6 August 2007
September 2007 63 Review Splinter Interzone, September-October 2007
September 2007 Review Titan Strange Horizons, 10 September 2007
October 2007 Review Land of the Headless Strange Horizons, 8 October 2007
November 2007 Review Getting to Know You Strange Horizons, 5 November 2007
November 2007 29 Review Land of the Headless Vector 254
December 2007 Review The Terror Strange Horizons, 3 December 2007
2008 6 Essay Doris Lessing and SF Vector 257 Autumn 2008
2008 36 Review Swiftly Vector 256 Summer 2008
2008 23 Review What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction Vector 257 Autumn 2008
January 2008 Essay 2007 in Review Strange Horizons, 7 January 2008
February 2008 Review Duma Key Strange Horizons, 18 February 2008
February 2008 22 Review Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 2008
February 2008 Review Swiftly Strange Horizons, 25 February 2008
March 2008 Review Four Novels of the 1960s Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008
June 2008 Review Incandescence Strange Horizons, 2 June 2008
June 2008 Short Fiction Remorse® StarShipSofa, No 30
June 2008 50 Review Swiftly Interzone, June 2008
July 2008 Review Flood Strange Horizons, 14 July 2008
August 2008 Review Collected Poems Strange Horizons, 4 August 2008
October 2008 Review An Evil Guest Strange Horizons, 13 October 2008
October 2008 11 Review Swiftly The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 2008
November 2008 11 Review Land of the Headless The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 2008
November 2008 |11 Review Swiftly AntipodeanSF, November 2008
December 2008 29 Short Fiction A Prison Term of a Thousand Years Postscripts, Winter 2008
December 2008 Review Song of Time Strange Horizons, 1 December 2008
2009 4 Essay 2009 Vector Reviewers' Poll Vector 259 Spring 2009
2009 115 Review The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction Foundation, #107 Winter 2009
January 2009 Essay 2008 in Review Strange Horizons, 5 January 2009
January 2009 Review Lavinia Strange Horizons, 5 January 2009
March 2009 Review The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction Strange Horizons, 30 March 2009
March 2009 53 Review Yellow Blue Tibia Interzone, March-April 2009
March 2009 Review Yellow Blue Tibia Strange Horizons, 9 March 2009
April 2009 14 Review Gradisil Ray Gun Revival, #52
April 2009 Review Stone StarShipSofa, No 81
April 2009 23 Review Yellow Blue Tibia Locus, #579 April 2009
May 2009 Essay True Blood, season one (tv series review) Strange Horizons, 11 May 2009
July 2009 Review The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún Strange Horizons, 6 July 2009
July 2009 49 Review The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction Locus, #582 July 2009
August 2009 |14 Review Yellow Blue Tibia AntipodeanSF, August 2009
September 2009 Review I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas StarShipSofa, No 102
September 2009 Essay The Resistance, by Muse (music review) Strange Horizons, 28 September 2009
October 2009 Review The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria Strange Horizons, 26 October 2009
November 2009 Review Transition Strange Horizons, 23 November 2009
2010 38 Review Yellow Blue Tibia Vector 262 Winter 2010
January 2010 Essay 2009 in Review Strange Horizons, 4 January 2010
April 2010 Review VALIS and Later Novels Strange Horizons, 5 April 2010
June 2010 Review New Model Army Strange Horizons, 28 June 2010
July 2010 50 Review New Model Army Interzone, July-August 2010
July 2010 Review New Model Army SF Crowsnest, July 2010
July 2010 Essay The Woo of Lost (tv series review) Strange Horizons, 5 July 2010
August 2010 Review Red Plenty Strange Horizons, 16 August 2010
September 2010 27 Review New Model Army Locus, #596 September 2010
September 2010 Review Our Tragic Universe Strange Horizons, 20 September 2010
2011 19 Essay An Atomic Theory of Baxter's Fiction Vector 265 Winter 2011
2011 43 Review The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction Vector 267 Summer 2011
January 2011 Essay 2010 in Review Strange Horizons, 3 January 2011
March 2011 Essay Battle: Los Angeles (movie review) Strange Horizons, 28 March 2011
May 2011 Review Harmony Strange Horizons, 2 May 2011
June 2011 Review Aurorarama Strange Horizons, 20 June 2011
June 2011 61 Review New Model Army BFS Journal, Summer 2011
December 2011 Essay Mylo Xyloto, by Coldplay (music review) Strange Horizons, 12 December 2011
2012 129 Review Adam Robots Foundation, #116 Winter 2012/2013
2012 22 Essay On Science Fiction Music Vector 269 Spring 2012
2012 48 Review The Weird Vector 270 Late Spring 2012
2012 Essay Three Surprising Theories About Science Fiction Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins
January 2012 Essay 2011 in Review Strange Horizons, 2 January 2012
January 2012 Review By Light Alone Strange Horizons, 23 January 2012
April 2012 Essay The 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist Strange Horizons, 16 April 2012
April 2012 Review The Cloud Roads Strange Horizons, 23 April 2012
April 2012 Review The Serpent Sea Strange Horizons, 23 April 2012
May 2012 |12 Review The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo AntipodeanSF, May 2012
August 2012 Short Fiction Shall I Tell You the Problem with Time Travel? StarShipSofa, No 252
September 2012 117|117.1 Review Jack Glass SFX, September 2012
November 2012 69 Interview Adambrating Interzone, November-December 2012
November 2012 68 Review Jack Glass Interzone, November-December 2012
December 2012 50 Review Jack Glass Locus, #623 December 2012
2013 34 Review Adam Robots Vector 273 Autumn
2013 35 Review Jack Glass Vector 273 Autumn
2013 35 Review The Soddit Vector 273 Autumn
February 2013 20 Review By Light Alone Locus, #625 February 2013
March 2013 Interview Irony, Man: An Interview with Adam Roberts Strange Horizons, 25 March 2013
May 2013 71 Review Adam Robots Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #43
May 2013 81 Review Adam Robots Interzone, May-June 2013
May 2013 Review Adam Robots: Short Stories Strange Horizons, 6 May 2013
October 2013 Essay The 2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Strange Horizons, 7 October 2013
November 2013 Review Maddaddam Strange Horizons, 25 November 2013
December 2013 Review S. Strange Horizons, 9 December 2013
2014 44 Review Another Brick in the Moon Vector 277 Autumn
2014 16 Essay Loncon Reminiscences Vector 277 Autumn
January 2014 Review The Riddles of the Hobbit Strange Horizons, 27 January 2014
February 2014 |9 Review By Light Alone AntipodeanSF, February 2014
April 2014 Review Ancillary Justice Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Review God's War Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Review Nexus Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Essay The 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist, Part 1 Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Essay The 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist, Part 2 Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Review The Adjacent Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Review The Disestablishment of Paradise Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
April 2014 Review The Machine Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014
July 2014 Review Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Strange Horizons, 7 July 2014
July 2014 Essay Transformers: Age of Extinction (movie review) Strange Horizons, 14 July 2014
September 2014 Review The Queen of the Tearling Strange Horizons, 15 September 2014
November 2014 70 Review Bête Interzone, November-December 2014
November 2014 Review Bête Strange Horizons, 17 November 2014
2015 44 Review Bête Vector 279 Spring
2015 45 Review Saint Rebor Vector 280 Summer
2015 42 Review Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews Vector 279 Spring
January 2015 Essay 2014 in Review Strange Horizons, 5 January 2015
January 2015 75 Review Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews Interzone, January-February 2015
January 2015 70 Review The Brick Moon Interzone, January-February 2015
January 2015 Essay The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (movie review) Strange Horizons, 5 January 2015
June 2015 Review Saint Rebor Strange Horizons, 1 June 2015
July 2015 94 Short Fiction Hair Clarkesworld, July 2015
2016 |10 Review Apocalypse: An Epic Poem Strange Horizons, 2016 Fund Drive Special
2016 11 Interview History, Metaphysics, and Meta-Science Fiction Vector 284
February 2016 |7 Review Rave and Let Die: The SF & Fantasy of 2014 Strange Horizons, 15 February 2016
March 2016 74 Review The Thing Itself Interzone, March-April 2016
October 2016 |6 Short Fiction Zayinim Apex Magazine, October 2016
November 2016 |4 Review The Thing Itself Strange Horizons, 7 November 2016
March 2017 77 Review Bethany Interzone, March-April 2017
April 2017 96 Short Fiction Thing and Sick Clarkesworld, April 2017
August 2017 29 Short Fiction Edinburgh Masks Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2017 (Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition)
September 2017 70 Interview Real News Interzone, September-October 2017
October 2017 20 Review The Real-Town Murders Locus, #681 October 2017
October 2017 |3 Review The Real-Town Murders Strange Horizons, 23 October 2017
December 2017 |5 Essay Review of genre movie: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Strange Horizons, 18 December 2017
December 2017 Short Fiction The Edinburgh Masks Wells at the World's End, December 21, 2017
December 2017 Editor Wells at the World's End - 2017 Wells at the World's End, December 21, 2017
January 2018 |6 Essay 2017 in Review Part Three Strange Horizons, 1 January 2018
June 2018 25 Review The Quantum Magician Locus, #689 June 2018
November 2018 85 Review By the Pricking of Her Thumb Interzone, November-December 2018
June 2021 144 Review It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? Shoreline of Infinity, June 2021
July 2022 62 Review The This ParSec, Summer 2022
August 2022 |4 Review The This Strange Horizons, 1 August 2022
September 2022 Short Fiction Lad and the Devil Shoreline of Infinity, Autumn 2022
November 2024 62 Review Lake of Darkness ParSec, Autumn 2024
April 2025 |5 Essay Review of the nonfiction book "J. G. Ballard's Crash" by Paul March-Russell Strange Horizons, 7 April 2025
April 2025 |5.1 Essay Review of the nonfiction book "Keith Roberts's Pavane: A Critical Companion" by Paul Kincaid Strange Horizons, 7 April 2025
July 2025 Short Fiction Shrik ParSec, Summer 2025
September 2025 |25 Review Lake of Darkness Interzone, September 2025

59 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2000 Novel Salt Adam Roberts
2000 Nonfiction Science Fiction Adam Roberts
2001 Novel On Adam Roberts
2001 Chapbook Park Polar Adam Roberts
2002 Novel Stone Adam Roberts
2003 Chapbook Jupiter Magnified Adam Roberts
2003 Novel Polystom Adam Roberts
2004 Collection Swiftly Adam Roberts
2004 Novel The Snow Adam Roberts
2006 Novel Gradisil Adam Roberts
2006 Nonfiction Science Fiction: Second Edition Adam Roberts
2006 Nonfiction The History of Science Fiction Adam Roberts
2007 Novel Land of the Headless Adam Roberts
2007 Novel Splinter Adam Roberts
2008 Novel Doctor Whom, or ET Shoots and Leaves Adam Roberts
2008 Novel Swiftly Adam Roberts
2009 Nonfiction Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction Mark Bould & Andrew M. Butler & Adam Roberts & Sherryl Vint
2009 Novel I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas Adam Roberts
2009 Nonfiction The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction Mark Bould & Andrew M. Butler & Adam Roberts & Sherryl Vint
2009 Novel Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts
2010 Novel New Model Army Adam Roberts
2010 Novel Star Warped Adam Roberts
2010 Novel The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo Adam Roberts
2011 Chapbook Anticopernicus Adam Roberts
2011 Novel By Light Alone Adam Roberts
2012 Chapbook An Account of a Voyage from World to World Again, by Way of the Moon, 1726: Undertaken by Captain Captain Wm Chetwin Aboard the Cometes Georgius Adam Roberts
2012 Novel Jack Glass Adam Roberts
2013 Collection Adam Robots: Short Stories Adam Roberts
2013 Novel I, Soddit: The Autobiography Adam Roberts
2013 Omnibus The Parodies Collection Adam Roberts
2013 Nonfiction The Riddles of the Hobbit Adam Roberts
2014 Novel Bête Adam Roberts
2014 Nonfiction Get Started in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Adam Roberts
2014 Collection Saint Rebor Adam Roberts
2014 Nonfiction Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews Adam Roberts
2014 Anthology The Brick Moon Edward Everett Hale & Adam Roberts
2014 Novel Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea Adam Roberts
2015 Nonfiction Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 Adam Roberts
2015 Novel The Thing Itself Adam Roberts
2016 Chapbook Bethany Adam Roberts
2016 Nonfiction The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition Adam Roberts
2017 Novel The Real-Town Murders Adam Roberts
2018 Novel By the Pricking of Her Thumb Adam Roberts
2018 Novel Haven Adam Roberts
2018 Nonfiction Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance Adam Roberts
2018 Chapbook The Lake Boy Adam Roberts
2019 Nonfiction H G Wells: A Literary Life Adam Roberts
2019 Chapbook The Man Who Would Be Kling Adam Roberts
2020 Nonfiction It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? Adam Roberts
2020 Chapbook The Compelled Adam Roberts
2021 Novel Purgatory Mount Adam Roberts
2022 Anthology Classic Science Fiction Stories Adam Roberts
2022 Chapbook Stealing for the Sky Adam Roberts
2022 Novel The This Adam Roberts
2023 Novel The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate Adam Roberts
2023 Chapbook The Midas Rain Adam Roberts
2024 Novel Lake of Darkness Adam Roberts
2024 Collection Tales from Beyond the Stars Adam Roberts
2025 Nonfiction Fantasy: A Short History Adam Roberts
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