Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/ "Frankenstein Rex" coming in October: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/https://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlvyxskhms2pAt last! I'm top of the list! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvyxskhms2phttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlvhggfxe22s*sings in Yes* Roundabot! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvhggfxe22shttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlvfp5wcqc2lWhoever invented this will surely become a ... Spamdog Millionaire. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvfp5wcqc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlvf7kukj22bQuality trivia, this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvf7kukj22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlunfb2hvs2qThe world is charged with the grandeur of God. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/hopkins-gods-grandeur-187715 May 2026 05:53 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlunfb2hvs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlt776wjlk2yWhat a great band Roxy Music were.14 May 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt776wjlk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlt6oogpu22yIt's a good job he didn't go into politics under his actual name "Wesley Streeting". People might have thought he was a dweeb.14 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6oogpu22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlt5os3zlk2jRay Bradbury, author of the celebrated novel FAHRENHEIT NINE MINUTES TO FIVE.14 May 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt5os3zlk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlt4adn2z22eHeading to @foylesforbooks.bsky.social to interview @jeffnoon.bsky.social about his genuinely brilliant new novel MOON OVER BRENDLE. A few tickets, I believe, are still available! This evening at 6pm.14 May 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt4adn2z22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlt42m5v3c2eOn the train to (way on down south, way on, down, south) London Town. *guitar fill*14 May 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt42m5v3c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlssjpvlvk2jMadame Lyubov: wait! I can hear them ... Anya: Hear them, mamma? ML: Yes! The trees. The trees are talking amongst themselves ... A: And what are they saying? ML: They're saying ... "don't worry, be happy" "what a lovely day" "cheer up love!" An excerpt, there, from Chekhov's THE CHEERY ORCHARD14 May 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlssjpvlvk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlskqv5z4s2iThe number of times I've used this line on my own kids, when a police-car or ambulance passes, and especially the eyerolls and groans it has occasioned, are precious to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlskqv5z4s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlsilqcaks2kIt's picking-up in the comments to yesterday's Star Trek/transporter post: https://latestartrek.substack.com/p/spock-must-die14 May 2026 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsilqcaks2khttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mls7omj6ns2dBring me sunshine With you hope Francis Bacon Screaming pope [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mls7omj6ns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlrak2hy7s2dI started marking at 8am. It's now half ten at night & I'm knocking off. Though I will be tacitly grading your skeets, tonight's telly and all my dreams.13 May 2026 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrak2hy7s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlr4um537c2oTrochaic tetrameters randomly appearing in SF movie dialogue, the first in a series.13 May 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr4um537c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlqhgbgeqs27Well that's hail.13 May 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqhgbgeqs27https://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlpozys3vc26I talk a bit about James Blish's "Spock Must Die!" and souls. https://latestartrek.substack.com/p/spock-must-die13 May 2026 06:40 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpozys3vc26https://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlobtlkktk2zFall Saints [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlobtlkktk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlnvcmf5nk2pOne of the purest joys ever put on film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXCwlO2jnYU12 May 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnvcmf5nk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mln6zqmugs2mI'm in "Poems Ancient and Modern" with an A E Stallings poem: https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-alice-in-the-looking12 May 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln6zqmugs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mln6g2rcvk2dHow does a horse rein itself in? Is it holding its own reins in its hoofs?12 May 2026 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln6g2rcvk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mll7xpweik2hWhat is the earliest "silver bullet" story? https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/what-is-the-earliest-silver-bullet11 May 2026 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mll7xpweik2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mljpcgersk2rSurely they've suffered enough?10 May 2026 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljpcgersk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mljgpxhsik2dI saw Windlesham/Bagshot Formation play the Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1996.10 May 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljgpxhsik2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mlili2lbsc23THE COMPLETE ART OF MAKING THE FULMINATING OBJECTS which explode by being set fire to, by pressing upon by the foot, or friction. Only 1/6!10 May 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlili2lbsc23