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Compulsion

Adam Roberts , François Schuiten

« Partout, on pouvait voir ces structures nouvelles, petites et grandes, larges et hautes ; des monolithes, des dômes et des sphères bâtis par Obligation, se dressant fièrement au-dessus des pâturages comme les lettres d’un texte inédit, colossal et impénétrable. » Il y...

La Chose en soi

Sébastien Guillot , Adam Roberts

1986. Charles Gardner et Roy Curtius sont isolés sur une base en Antarctique. Ils participent au programme de recherche d’éventuels signaux en provenance d’une intelligence extraterrestre. Si Charles est pragmatique et expansif, Roy est taciturne et, surtout, obsédé par...

Jack Glass

Adam Roberts

Dans un futur lointain, notre système solaire est désormais habité et la Terre est le lieu de villégiature des plus riches. Six clans se partagent l’univers connu et maintiennent le reste de la population dans la plus extrême pauvreté.Trois énigmes criminelles composent...

L'Appel du large

Mikaël Cabon , Adam Roberts

La naissance d'un tout nouveau type d'IA avec son premier specimen, SoieVerte...

Des doigts de fée

Clotilde Landais , Adam Roberts

L'histoire d'une Terre parallèle où les humains auraient réellement découvert des îles peuplées de Lilliputiens et de géants, et se livreraient en se servant d'eux une guerre acharnée entre pays européens.

Bingo le Posstit

Karim Chergui , Paul Mafayon , Adam Roberts , A.R.R.R. Roberts

Bingo Pacquet est un posstit menant une existence paisible. À part ses pieds,atrophiés, arthritiques et éléphantiasiques -, rien ne semble pouvoir troubler la quiétude de ses jours. Mais son bonheur prend fin lorsque le magicien Glandalf et une compagnie de nains...

Lake of Darkness

Adam Roberts

The This

Adam Roberts

The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers are growing. Its detractors say...

Purgatory Mount

Adam Roberts

An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five...

H G Wells

Adam Roberts

This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946....

The Snow

Adam Roberts

The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel to date.And this is how the world will end ...'The snow started falling on the sixth of September, soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of...

Publishing and the Science Fiction Canon

Adam Roberts

Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this...

By the Pricking of Her Thumb

Adam Roberts

Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her...

The Real-Town Murders

Adam Roberts

Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying.Alma's...

Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation

Adam Roberts

Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation...

The History of Science Fiction

Adam Roberts

This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century.This new 2nd edition has been revised...

Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring

Timothy Garton Ash , Rory Mccarthy , Adam Roberts , Michael J. Willis

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about...

Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring

Timothy Garton Ash , Rory Mccarthy , Adam Roberts , Michael J. Willis

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about...

The Thing Itself

Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing.Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of...

Get Started in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

Adam Roberts

YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING AWESOME AND AMAZING FICTION FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION.This is an authoritative and engaging introduction to writing science fiction and fantasy for the complete beginner. This book provides all the information, guidance, and advice you need...