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/3mtt45aggw22kAn Asimovian Triptych. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/an-asimovian-triptych24 Aug 2026 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtt45aggw22khttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtrdk2dtps2xChariots of Crotch-on-Fire [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrdk2dtps2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtqxyeazxc2qRoses are red Golf starts at first tee [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqxyeazxc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtqwmyvgrk2zWhich of these do you prefer? A (left) or B (right).23 Aug 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqwmyvgrk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtqw53uufk2d"Russell Crowe devoured my sister raw, whilst he was filming his most famous movie." "Gladiator?" "I was: she and I never got on, and she completely ignored my advice not to pester Crowe on the set of 'A Beautiful Mind'."23 Aug 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqw53uufk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtp63qr74s2r22 Aug 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtp63qr74s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtoumuh7fc2iR.I.P. Zip.22 Aug 2026 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoumuh7fc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtnrhhjmzc2t"Mother was depressed to learn of the premature death of the sixteenth-century playwright." "Marlowe?" "That's how she is, yes, after discovering that Robert Greene only lived to be 34."22 Aug 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnrhhjmzc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtoetqec3s2eStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. Kalen on "the puppet one" https://latestartrek.substack.com/p/its-the-puppet-one22 Aug 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoetqec3s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtobbl5w4k2j"Did you get that Thomas the Tank Engine cover-art I asked for?" "Sure did Boss, real fucken sexy just like you wanted" [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtobbl5w4k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtnvrgrmtk24I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have buttered toast Than never to have ate at all.22 Aug 2026 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnvrgrmtk24https://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtnrhhjmzc2t"Mother was depressed to learn of the premature death of the sixteenth-century playwright." "Marlowe?" "That's how she is, yes, after discovering that Robert Greene only lived to be 34."22 Aug 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtnrhhjmzc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtmhem2tfs2cBobby can hold Moore. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmhem2tfs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtmdvjopss2fI remember seeing them at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 1988.21 Aug 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmdvjopss2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtm2gf3bws2iNot aviailable in English, I think, and my German is nowhere good enough to read in the original; but this looks interesting. Does anyone know it?21 Aug 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm2gf3bws2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtlrxjq4pc2eI took part in an online interview this morning, and one of the things that came up related to this old post of mine, on "Dune", to do SF, worldbuilding and my own fundamentally nerdy and pusillanimous youth: https://medium.com/adams-notebook/dunes-worldbuilding-and-carroll-s-violence-or-reciting-the-litany-on-the-dover-road-1d5ac69d279821 Aug 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlrxjq4pc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtloo6odrc23I too was a big fan of Puffins when I was a kid. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtloo6odrc23https://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtlmlasnb22nWaterboarding Christ. If the second coming happens in the USA. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlmlasnb22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtlm7hccx22nI missed the last few episodes of BBC Radio 3's "Key Changes" with Gillian Moore (and for these ones Simon Schama), and am catching up this morning on BBC Sounds. It's one of the best things on radio.21 Aug 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlm7hccx22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtiskcc6ds2rSome thoughts on Solvej Balle's "On The Calculation of Volume", or as much of it as has appeared in English so far. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/slovej-balle-on-the-calculation-of20 Aug 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtiskcc6ds2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtl3qoqtgk2tRoses are red Violets are blue21 Aug 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtl3qoqtgk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtk37iu6222wWell I've watched it now. It was even worse than I anticipated. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtk37iu6222whttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtjotrwpxk2mWeird and Idle. As it said on my secondary school report. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjotrwpxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtjklrisfs2lIt’s time for new world strangeness It’s time to Pike the Pikes It’s time for warp-speed lameness On the Star Trek Show tonight It's time to bust the trademark It's time for franchise blight It's time to jump the space-shark On the Star Trek Show tonight ...20 Aug 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjklrisfs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtj7omqyr22lCABBA20 Aug 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtj7omqyr22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtitycgxs22uI hereby pledge to include a character called Scurroveeld in my next novel.20 Aug 2026 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtitycgxs22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtiskcc6ds2rSome thoughts on Solvej Balle's "On The Calculation of Volume", or as much of it as has appeared in English so far. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/slovej-balle-on-the-calculation-of20 Aug 2026 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtiskcc6ds2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mth7c7v3zc2pFor me it was this morning, when I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around my nethers.19 Aug 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth7c7v3zc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtgp7hyr3c2vNot a drop of rain for SIXTY DAYS and then the first Test against Pakistan opens and it .... rains??19 Aug 2026 12:10 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgp7hyr3c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/adamroberts.bsky.social/post/3mtgitthhlc23This blurb either means the blurber hasn't read the novel (in I ROBOT THE robots are servants, and very much not rulers) or else that they somehow travelled through time to 1985 and read ROBOTS AND EMPIRE (spoiler).19 Aug 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:ulkx4memujdk522qvscab5ho/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgitthhlc23