Literary criticism of Adam Roberts' work by Rich Puchalsky

Some notes on reading Adam Roberts

Books that I've written about are linked below. Comments can be left on my blog here. Each of these essays is in a different formal style in keeping with the individual work that the essay is about.

This is also a fairly up to date Adam Roberts bibliography (not including SF collections that he helpled to edit or appeared in.)

Novels

• Salt (2000)
• On (2001)
• Stone (2002)
• Polystom (2003)
• The Snow (2004)
• Gradisil (2006)
• Splinter (2007)
• Land of the Headless (2007)
• Swiftly: A Novel (2008)
• Yellow Blue Tibia (2009)
• New Model Army (2010)
• By Light Alone (2011)
• Jack Glass (2012)
• Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014)
• Bete (2014)
• The Thing Itself (2015)
• The Real-Town Murders (2017)
• By the Pricking of her Thumb (2018)
• Haven (2018)
• The Black Prince (2018) (not SF)
• Purgatory Mount (2021)
• The This (2022)

Novellas

• Park Polar (2002)
• Jupiter Magnified (2003)
• Anticopernicus (novelette) (2011)
• An Account of a Voyage from World to World Again, by Way of the Moon, 1726 (novelette) (2012)
• The Brick Moon & Another Brick in the Moon (2014)
• Bethany (2016)
• The Lake Boy (2018)
• The Man Who Would Be King (2019)
• The Compelled (2020)

Short story collections

• Swiftly: Stories (2004)
• Adam Robots (2013)
• Saint Rebor (2014)

Parodies

• The Soddit (2003)
• The McAtrix Derided (2004)
• The Sellamillion (2004)
• Star Warped (2005)
• The Va Dinci Cod (2005)
• Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves (2006)
• I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (2009)
• The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010)
• I, Soddit (2013)

Academic / Criticism / Other

• English Authors Series: Robert Browning Revisited (1996)
• Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy (1998)
• Romantic and Victorian Long Poems: A Guide (1999)
• Fredric Jameson (2000)
• Science Fiction: the New Critical Idiom (2000, second edition 2005)
• Alfred Tennyson (2000) (critical edition)
• Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" (written by Lin Carter 1969, updated edition 2003)
• Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary (2003)
• Robert Browning: the major works (2005)
• The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Histories of Literature) (2006)
• The Riddles of the Hobbit (2013)
• Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews (2014)
• Get Started Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014)
• Landor's Cleanness (2014)
• Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015)
• Coleridge : Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819) (2016) (editor)
• Wodwo Vergil (poetry) (2018)
• H G Wells: A Literary Life (2019)
• Pervigilium Finneganis (translation) (2019)
• Publishing and the science fiction canon: the case of scientific romance (2019)
• It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of (2020)
• Classic Science Fiction Stories (edited by) (2020)
• Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (2021)
• Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2022) (critical edition)

The order that I wrote about these works in was, if I remember rightly: 1) Stone, 2) On, 3) Splinter, 4) Yellow Blue Tibia, 5) Anticopernicus, 6) Polystom, 7) Sibilant Fricative, if you want to read only the more recent ones.