Christopher J. Priest, Author, Adam Roberts, Author, A. R. R. R. Roberts, Author Gollancz $14.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-575-07064-6
Stone, an SF novel by Adam Roberts, in which the universe's last criminal considers a cross-planet killing spree.
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Adam Roberts, Author . Night Shade $27 (247p) ISBN 978-1-892389-71-8
The dozen stories in this impressive collection from British author Roberts (Salt
), his first U.S. publication, form a natural progression. The style echoes classic British speculative fiction with its focus on individual characters, each...
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Adam Roberts, Author . Public Affairs $26 (303p) ISBN 978-1-58648-371-5
The most terrifying thing about this chronicle of a failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea is that it's not a Graham Greene novel but a true story. Roberts, an Economist
staffer, chronicles the plot by foreign mercenaries and merchants to...
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Adam Roberts, Author . Pyr $15 (551p) ISBN 978-1-59102-538-2
Written like a love-hate letter to American SF, Roberts's latest is a multigenerational saga of space colonization and betrayal. Centered on the life of Gradisil Gyeroffy, it covers the early years of plucky (and/or wealthy) Uplanders,...
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Adam Roberts. Gollancz (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (282p) ISBN 978-0-575-08363-9
Previously published in the U.K. to critical praise, Roberts's new dystopia is set in a United Kingdom dissolving into civil disorder thanks to Celtic nationalism and a new military approach that has made it possible for small, democratically run...
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Adam Roberts, Author, A. R. R. R. Roberts, Author Gollancz $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-575-07177-3
Tighe lives in a hardscrabble village on the side of a great wall that stretches as far up and down as the eye can see -until one day, he falls off (gravity operates parallel to the ground) and down into a world he never could have imagined...
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Adam Roberts. Gollancz (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.95 trade paper (422p) ISBN 978-0-575-08366-0
In this off-kilter work, Roberts (New Model Army) mixes social commentary and science fiction, springboarding from one simple premise: in a future where people can use photosynthesis to live on water and sunlight, real food is the ultimate luxury...
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Adam Roberts. Gollancz (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-575-12762-3
Exuberant Golden Age space opera plotting plays against slyly understated contemporary storytelling in this exceptional novel. Although the discovery of a faster-than-light space drive offers humankind hope of escaping from an increasingly stagnant...
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Adam Roberts. PublicAffairs, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61039-669-1
Roberts (The Wonga Coup) makes an intriguing but not altogether persuasive case that India, soon to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation with more than 1.7 billion people, could become a powerhouse in the next few decades. Part history,
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Adam Roberts. Knopf, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-80383-7
Roberts’s rollicking debut chronicles the escapades of a timid food writer who ghostwrites a cookbook for an entitled and temperamental celebrity. Isabella Pasternak flounders after losing her job at a digital magazine, where she botched a soufflé...
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