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ADAM ROBERTS received his MA (English and Classics Jt-Hons) from Aberdeen University and his PhD (Robert Browning and the Classics) from Cambridge University. He has worked in the English Department at Royal Holloway since 1991, and he is currently Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature.
He is also a creative writer, the author of (to date) seven science fiction novels, seven parodies, two novellas, a collection of short stories and various other things. His teaching divides itself between literature (mostly nineteenth-century subjects) and creative writing; he is currently supervising PhDs in both areas.
Publications (on academic and critical subjects) include many works and critical editions on nineteenth-century topics, amongst them: Robert Browning Revisited (Twayne 1997), Robert Browning: The Poems (OUP 1998; the Oxford Authors), Alfred Tennyson: The Poems (OUP 2000; the Oxford Authors); Romantic and Victorian Long Poems (Ashgate 1998) and Victorian Culture and Society: the Essential Glossary (London: Arnold/Hodder Headline 2003). He has also published widely on science fiction, fantasy and postmodern theory: Silk and Potatoes: Postwar Arthurian Fantasy (Rodopi, 1997), an introductory guide to the work of postmodern theorist and philosopher Fredric Jameson (Routledge Critical Thinkers series, 2000), and a short book Science Fiction (Routledge New Critical Idiom series, 2000). His large-scale Critical History of Science Fiction recently appeared (Palgrave 2006)
At the moment, he is finishing up editorial work on Browning's Greek Poems as Volume Ten of the prestigious Oxford Poetical Works of Robert Browning (with Yopie Prins, University of Michigan), which will contain Browning's poems Balaustion's Adventure, Aristophanes' Apology and the famous Browning version of Aeschylus's Agamemnon).
His novels are Salt (Victor Gollancz 2000), On (Gollancz 2001), Stone (Gollancz 2002), Polystom (Gollancz 2003), The Snow (Gollancz 2004). His most recent Gollancz title, Gradisil (Gollancz 2006), has been shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award, 2007.
Forthcoming this year are two new novels: Land of the Headless (Gollancz 2007) and Splinter (Solaris, 2007). His parodies are: The Soddit (Gollancz 2003), The McAtrix Derided (Gollancz 2004), The Sellamillion (Gollancz 2004), Star Warped (Gollancz 2004), The Da Vinci Cod (Gollancz 2005) and Dr Whom: or, E.T. Shoots and Leaves (Gollancz, 2006).
Other fiction publications include Park Polar (London: PS Publishing 2001), Jupiter Magnified (London: PS Publishing 2003) and Swiftly: Stories (San Francisco CA: Nightshade Books 2004). His short stories have appeared in many different venues.
He has a 'science fiction author' website (as opposed to this, his 'academic persona' website) which can be found at http://www.adamroberts.com.
Tel/Fax : +44 (0)1784 443214/479059