Adam Roberts (born 1966) is a Science Fiction writer and an academic with the University of London. He was born in London, where he presently lives. Roberts took a Ph.D. at Cambridge and teaches English literature at University of London.

Though often praised by critics, Roberts has never won any of the genre's many awards, and many readers find his writing admirable rather than likeable or engaging. For some there is a chilly quality to his mainstream SF books that renders them offputting, although few deny their intelligence or ingenuity. His parodies are very different sorts of books, amusing in the opinion of some, disrespectful and puerile in the opinion of others.

Published works

Roberts has published five novels, two novellas, a collection of short stories and five parodies.

Novels

• Salt (2000)
• On (2001)
• Stone (2002)
• Polystom (2003)
• The Snow (2004)
• Granisil (forthcoming)

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)

Criticism

• Science Fiction: the New Critical Idiom (date unknown)

External links

• Home Page
• Bibliography at SciFan