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  • By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    By the Pricking of Her Thumb

    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...
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  • Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters

    Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about...
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  • Classic Science Fiction Stories by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Classic Science Fiction Stories

    An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic technologies and vividly imagined worlds. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books...
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  • Documents on the Laws of War by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Documents on the Laws of War

    This new edition of the popular and authoritative text on the laws of war has been revised and completely updated to take account of the many diplomatic, legal and military developments of the last ten years. Conflicts in the Gulf, Yugoslavia and Rwanda in...
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  • Every Day, Luv: Love, Light, and Excrement in a Year of Pandemic. by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Every Day, Luv: Love, Light, and Excrement in a Year of Pandemic.

    In 2021, I wrote something for my wife, every single day. What started as a simple New Year's resolution to rekindle our romance ended up as a chronicle of a couple surviving pandemic, loss, and the sandwich-generation rollercoaster of caring for both a special-needs...
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  • Fantasy: A Short History by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Fantasy: A Short History

    One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and...
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  • H G Wells: A Literary Life by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    H G Wells: A Literary Life

    This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to...
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  • Haven by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Haven

    Young Forktongue Davy has visions; epilepsy, his Ma calls it. He's barely able to help around the family farm. But something about the lad is attracting attention: the menacing stranger who might be the angel of death himself; the women-only community at Wycombe; Daniel,...
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  • Haven: The Aftermath Book Two by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Haven: The Aftermath Book Two

    A stunning, post-apocalyptic vision of the future as humanity strives to rebuild civilisation in a world ravaged by climate change. Young Forktongue Davy has visions; epilepsy, his Ma calls it. He's barely able to help around the family farm. But something about the lad...
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  • It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?

    Are we doomed? Is an almighty power or an earth-shattering meteor waiting for us just around the corner? In this thought-provoking book, Professor Adam Roberts explores our many different cultural visions of the end of the world - likely and unlikely, mundane and bizarre...
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  • Lake of Darkness: The Mindbending New Science Fiction Novel from Adam Roberts by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Lake of Darkness: The Mindbending New Science Fiction Novel from Adam Roberts

    Author: Adam RobertsISBN-10: 1399617699ISBN-13: 9781399617697Publisher: GollanczLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback
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  • Lost Worlds Short Stories by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Lost Worlds Short Stories

    Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title is packed with dark valleys, high mountain passes, dinosaurs and endless dark creations. Contains a fabulous mix of...
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  • Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors

    In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an...
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  • Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors

    In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an...
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  • Paris by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Paris

    It is one of the world's most iconic cities, the center of romance, cuisine, and high culture, a place we are all implored to visit in spring and then forever hold in our hearts: Paris. But behind these familiar notions lies a bustling and...
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  • Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance

    Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this explosion in interest in...
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  • Purgatory Mount by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Purgatory Mount

    An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to...
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  • Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014

    An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work of others. His reviews are honest, forthright, and never timid. Following the success of Sibilant Fricative (Steel Quill Books, 2014), Adam now takes on the daunting task...
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  • Ribs and Sides: With Low & Slow BBQ Guide by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Ribs and Sides: With Low & Slow BBQ Guide

    Barbecuing aficionado Adam Roberts has updated his highly sought after Ribs cookbook by supplementing with further sumptuous sides, even more delicious satisfying recipes along with his universally loved meat board of slow-cooked rack of ribs. Ribs & Sides is the ultimate collection of the...
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  • Science Fiction by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Science Fiction

    Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other...
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  • Sibilant Fricative by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Sibilant Fricative

    "Adam Roberts makes everything wonderful. If he wrote non-fiction about drying paint, I would still be the first in line to read it." - Jared Shurin, Pornokitsch. An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work...
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  • The Black Prince: Adapted from an Original Script by Anthony Burgess by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Black Prince: Adapted from an Original Script by Anthony Burgess

    'I'm working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in Edward III's time ... The fourteenth century of my novel will be mainly evoked in terms of smell and visceral feelings, and it will carry an undertone of general disgust rather...
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  • The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

    A gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our most famous 19th century writers. The 1840s. Railway Baron Sir Martin Malprelate has been laying waste to the warren of Camden; buying up houses and clearing streets for...
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  • The History of Science Fiction by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The History of Science Fiction

    Preface to Second Edition.- Preface to First Edition (2006).- 1. Definitions.- 2. SF and the Ancient Novel.- 3. From Medieval Romance to Sixteenth-Century Utopia.- 4. 17th-Century SF.- 5. 18th-Century SF. Big, Little.- 6. Early 19th Century SF.- 7. SF 1850-1900: Mobility and Mobilisation.- 8....
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  • The History of Science Fiction by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The History of Science Fiction

    Preface to Second Edition.- Preface to First Edition (2006).- 1. Definitions.- 2. SF and the Ancient Novel.- 3. From Medieval Romance to Sixteenth-Century Utopia.- 4. 17th-Century SF.- 5. 18th-Century SF. Big, Little.- 6. Early 19th Century SF.- 7. SF 1850-1900: Mobility and Mobilisation.- 8....
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  • The Lake Boy by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Lake Boy

    Historical fiction meets science fiction and the paranormal in this gripping novella set in the Lake District. Cynthia lives in a lakeside parish in Cumbria, where none suspect her blemished past. Then a ghostly scar-faced boy starts to appear to her and strange lights...
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  • The Man Who Would Be Kling by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Man Who Would Be Kling

    When two strangers ask the manager at Kabul Station to take them into the Afghanizone he refuses. What sane person wouldn't? Thought to be the result of an alien visitation, the zone is deadly. Nothing works there. Electrical items are your enemy; they malfunction...
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  • The Real-Town Murders by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Real-Town Murders

    Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying....
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  • The Real-Town Murders by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Real-Town Murders

    Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying....
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  • The Riddles of the Hobbit by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Riddles of the Hobbit

    Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit, and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to...
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  • The Thing Itself by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Thing Itself

    Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenter's The Thing. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one...
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  • The This by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The This

    The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers...
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  • The This by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The This

    The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers...
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  • The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa

    Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billion...
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  • Wodwo Vergil by Roberts, Adam
    Adam Roberts

    Wodwo Vergil

    Adam Roberts' incomparable versions of Vergil's Ecologues are wise, witty, reeking, rollicking, knurled, greenly flourishing, leaking and shimmering with fusions and fissions. These zephyrs have the guts to zigzag when requisite to give it to us straight. "Nature is always the resource that has...
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