adam roberts

[phelann]

I've just recently started to hear about this guy and some of his stuff looks pretty interesting (and such cool covers . . .). Anyone here read him and have a recommendation or two?

 

[gigantes]

sorry for hijacking your thread, but you just reminded me of richard adams- he wrote possibly the best 'adventure / slice of life' story that i've ever read- "watership down".

the fact that the protagonists were rabbits and yet it wasn't 'cutesy' or a children's story was also pretty amazing. never read anything else like it, but i wish i could someday.

 

[phelann]

i actually never read those, at the time I would have been interested I was intensely loyal to redwall!

 

[gigantes]

redwall... ew.

*shudder*

 

[Ian Whates]

I've just recently started to hear about this guy and some of his stuff looks pretty interesting (and such cool covers . . .). Anyone here read him and have a recommendation or two?

In an effort to re-hijack this thread back to the purpose for which it was originally intended... One of Adam's books that is definitely worth reading is his latest, Gradisil, which has made the shortlist for this year's prestigious Arthur C. Clarke award.

Have to admit that I actually prefer some of his shorter fiction to some of his novels -- the two novellas that were produced as chapbooks by PS Publishing, Buy Jupiter and Park Polar are particularly good. Adam has also produced a great new short story for a signed, limited edition anthology I'll be publishing later this year (provisionally entitled Dislocations) which I can thoroughly recommend!

 

[UltraCulture]

Re; Adam Roberts, read a few of his books, and most are very good, one of the most common words you'll read on the cover reviews is high-concept.

I enjoyed ON especially, just because i'd never read anything like it before, basically it's a world which has gravity running slightly askew(all i could think was that gravity ran around the planet instead of in towards the core)*, one review said a world tipped on its side, so peope have to live on the sides of mountains, and if you fall off god help you.

I also thought Salt was great, as was Polystom the only book i've struggled with was The Snow another great premise to a story,a simple snowy day followed by another,and another,and another,you can see where this is heading.......etc,until the planet is covered under 3 miles of the stuff, and it's a good book at the start, it just got a little boring for me about a third way through, no doubt i'll pick it again one day.

can't comment on Gradisil.

I'm sure i read somewhere that Adam Roberts wanted to write a novel on every sub-genre within the genre itself,that could be quite a few.

*Im no scientist you know

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

He also uses various pseudonyms:-A.R.R.R.Roberts for his Tolkien parodies:The SODDIT & The SELLAMILLION,

AR3:- for STAR WARPED,

Robertski Brothers:- for The McATRIX DERIDED

And A. Roberts for The DA VINCI COD,

 

[UltraCulture]

I've never read his pi$$takes, any good?

If there's one thing that annoys me, it's a decent author flogging his/her wears

SORRY I JUST HATE PARODIES

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I've never read his pi$$takes, any good?

If there's one thing that annoys me, it's a decent author flogging his/her wears

SORRY I JUST HATE PARODIES

I really liked Bored of the Rings it was so funny By Harvard Lampoon.

 

[Ragnar]

I've only read Snow and Salt but really enjoyed both of them (Salt in particular) but I'm a bit dissapointed to learn that he's written those awful cash-in parodies - not quite sure why though... maybe I'm just being a snob? Its also annoyed me because he wrote really scathing reviews of a couple of books in Neal Stephenson's awesome Baroque Trilogy.

 

[gigantes]

I really liked Bored of the Rings it was so funny

hehe, it was cute.

NOW i remember why the name seems very familiar to me!

robert adams!

writer of the horseclans series! (a post-apocylptic scenerio set in north america)
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