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Adam Robots: Short Stories by Sir Adam Roberts
Category: Fiction
Gathered together for the first time from a major publisher are the short stories of Adam Roberts. Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry Adam Roberts' trademark elegance of style and restless enquiry of the genre he loves so much. Acclaimed stories, so ...Show more
Adam Robots: Short Stories by Adam Roberts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Gathered together for the first time from a major publisher - a collection of short stories by Adam Roberts. Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry Adam Roberts' trademark elegance of style and restless enquiry of the genre he loves so much. Acclaimed s ...Show more
Bete by Adam Roberts
Category: Fiction
A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his right to kill with the compliant animal. He begins to suspect he may be about to commit murder. But kills anyway ...It began when the animal rights movement injected domestic animals with artificial intelligences in a bid to have the stat ...Show more
By Light Alone by Adam Roberts
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating. But other hungers remain ...The young daughter of an a ...Show more
By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Adam Roberts
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case ...Show more
By the Pricking of Her Thumb - indent by Adam Roberts
Category: Crime Fiction
Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case ...Show more
Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Adam Roberts
Category: Languages and Reference
This is an authoritative and engaging introduction to writing science fiction and fantasy for the complete beginner. This book provides all the information, guidance, and advice you need to write great science fiction to captivate your readers. It will help you understand how the genre works, the big ...Show more
I, Soddit: The Autobiography by Adam Roberts
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Adam Roberts' THE SODDIT was a SUNDAY TIMES bestseller and sold 150,000 copies. But what happened to the Soddit after his adventures, and after his account of them was published...?
I am Scrooge by Adam Roberts
Category: Fiction
Marley was dead. Again. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns! Just ...Show more
I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas by Sir Adam Roberts
Category: Fiction
Marley was dead. To begin with. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinn ...Show more
It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? by Roberts, Professor Adam
Category: Politics
Are we doomed? Is an Almighty Power or an earth-shattering meteor waiting for us just around the corner? Probably not. So why are we so obsessed with imagining our own demise? And what does that say about us as a species? In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed critic Adam Roberts explores our many di ...Show more