Adam Roberts is Professor of 19th-century literature at London University. His novels, SALT, GRADISIL and YELLOW BLUE TIBIA have all been shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD. He has also published a number of academic works on both 19th-century poetry and SF.
Happy Friday Gollancz Blog readers and welcome back to our weekly #FridayReads wherein a member of Team Gollancz shares with you a book we can’t stop talking about. Whether it’s an upcoming new release, an old favourite or a hot genre title this is the place for to find your perfect weekend reading selection. This week we’ve asked Team Gollancz to share which books we’ll be reading over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Simon: This weekend I will still be reading The … More
Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, Adam Roberts, Alastair Reynolds, Blood, Blue Remembered Earth, By Light Alone, Catherine, Chasm City, Friday Reads, George RR Martin, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Intrusion, Kay Kenyon, Ken MacLoed, Matthew Swift, Mountains of the Mind, Nan Shepherd, Nick Webb, Philip Mann, Revelation Space, Rick Riordan, Robert Macfarlane, SFX, Some Kind of Fairy Tale, The Disestablishment of Paradise, The Entire and the Rose Series, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Living Mountain, The Minority Council, The Red Pyramid, The Serpent's Shadow, The Silent Land, The Wild Places
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A supremely clever melding of golden-age crime themes with golden-age SF themes. A tricksy crime novel told in three stories. A who-dunnit where you know from the beginning who dunnit (that would be Jack Glass), but are still surprised when you discover how he did it. What on earth (or indeed off earth) would you put on the cover? Tried loads of ideas, nothing worked. Went back to the beginning. To the title. Jack Glass. The … More
Tags: Adam Roberts, Cover Art Reveal, Jack Glass, Science Fiction
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We three kings of Orient are,
One in a taxi, one in a car,
One on a scooter, beeping his hooter,
Smoking a fat cigar . . .
Carol singing is such a Christmas tradition and – if you’re me, at least – so is standing at the back of the choir singing the alternative version as loudly as possible. It’s not a proper concert unless the audience can hear both sets of lyrics, and it’s a great deal more fun!
Nor (as the … More
Tags: Adam Roberts, Christmas, Horror
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Adam Roberts has this theory (Adam forgive me if I misrepresent you in précis) – SF has become a genre whose meaning is conveyed most powerfully in its imagery. By which, for the sake of this piece, and for better or worse, we mean cinema (and yes I know TV gave us Battlestar Galactica, X-Files, Next Generation etc etc). SF has become one of the most dominant forces, or at least references, in mainstream cinema during the last 30 years … More
Tags: Adam Roberts, Avatar, Moon, Simon Spanton
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The BBC children’s television programme Teletubbies is, evidently, based upon an SF conceit. But how meaningful is it to call it SF? Whilst conceding science-fictional elements to the show, most viewers, I suppose, would not think of it as belonging to the SF genre. And yet there is a point in making the identification.
The Teletubbies live in Teletubbyland, a sort of hi-tech hobbiton of green fields and hills, dotted with coloured flowers and grazing rabbits, under … More
Tags: Adam Roberts, Science Fiction, Teletubbies
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