A.R.R.R. Roberts

About the Author

Disambiguation Notice:

Don Brine is a pseudonym of Adam Roberts (academic, critic and novelist) who also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A. R. R. R. Roberts and A3R Roberts.

Image credit: Roberts at Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France) By Georges Seguin (Okki) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3716186

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Cardboard Box of the Rings

Works by A.R.R.R. Roberts

Popular Recent

Yellow Blue Tibia (2009) 492 copies

Jack Glass (2012) 428 copies

Salt (2000) 365 copies

The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again (2003) 363 copies

Stone (2002) 349 copies

The Thing Itself (2015) 285 copies

The Snow (2004) 258 copies

Gradisil (2006) 251 copies

On (2001) 250 copies

Polystom (2003) 227 copies

New Model Army (2010) 219 copies

By Light Alone (2011) 207 copies

The Va Dinci Cod (1995) 173 copies

Science Fiction (2000) 163 copies

The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Histories of Literature) (2006) 157 copies

Swiftly (2008) 151 copies

Bête (2014) 129 copies

Land of the Headless (2007) 126 copies

Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014) 121 copies

The Sellamillion: The Disappointing 'Other' Book (2004) 120 copies

The Real-Town Murders (2017) 117 copies

I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (2009) 101 copies

Adam Robots: Short Stories (2013) 95 copies

Doctor Whom (2006) 83 copies

Purgatory Mount (2021) 80 copies

The This (2022) 78 copies

Splinter (1657) 72 copies

Star Warped: Once Upon A Time In A Galaxy Nowhere Near Far Enough Away (GollanczF.) (2005) 70 copies

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010) 61 copies

Fredric Jameson (2000) 56 copies

Lost Worlds Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2017) — Foreword — 55 copies

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009) — Editor; Contributor — 54 copies

By the Pricking of Her Thumb (2018) 49 copies

The Black Prince (2018) 40 copies

Haven (2018) 34 copies

Anticopernicus (2011) 32 copies

Irregularity (2014) — Contributor — 30 copies

Swiftly : stories that never were and might not be (2004) 30 copies

The Riddles of the Hobbit (2013) 23 copies

Sibilant Fricative (2014) 22 copies

Cardboard Box of the Rings: "The Soddit", "The Sellamillion", "Bored of the Rings" (GollanczF.) (2004) 21 copies

Park Polar (2001) 20 copies

It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? (2020) 19 copies

The Man Who Would Be Kling (2019) 18 copies

Classic Science Fiction Stories (2022) — Editor — 18 copies

The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate (2023) 17 copies

Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015) 16 copies

H.G. Wells : a literary life (2019) 15 copies

Jupiter Magnified (2002) 15 copies

The Lake Boy (2018) 15 copies

Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Teach Yourself) (2014) 15 copies

The Brick Moon: Orbit and re-entry (2014) 13 copies

Stealing For The Sky 13 copies

Saint Rebor (2014) 10 copies

Bethany (2016) 7 copies

Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke (2012) — Contributor — 7 copies

Hair [novelette] (2009) 6 copies

The Midas Rain 6 copies

The Compelled (2020) 5 copies

I, Soddit: The Autobiography (2013) 4 copies

Me-Topia (2006) 4 copies

Landor's cleanness : a study of Walter Savage Landor (2014) 4 copies

Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance (2018) 3 copies

Shoreline of Infinity 32: Science fictional fairy tales and myths (Science Fiction Magazine) (2022) 3 copies

Jack din sticla (Romanian Edition) 3 copies

The Ice Submarine (2011) 3 copies

Swiftly [short story] 3 copies

A Voyage From World to World, 1726 (2012) 3 copies

Robert Browning Revisited (1996) 3 copies

Shall I tell you the trouble with time travel? [short fiction] (2011) 3 copies

Der Hobbnix - Die große Tolkien-Parodie: Hobbnix 1 (2012) 3 copies

War of Another World [short story] 2 copies

Here Comes the Flood [short story] (2006) 2 copies

Silk and potatoes : contemporary Arthurian fantasy (1998) 2 copies

Anhedonia (Short story) 2 copies

Wodwo Vergil (2018) 2 copies

Poem in Four Parts 2 copies

Coleridge : Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819) (2016) 2 copies

Lunatic Fables: Two Thousand Years of Voyaging to the Moon (2019) 2 copies

A distillation of grace (Short story) 2 copies

The Time Telephone {short story} 2 copies

Petrolpunk {short story} 2 copies

Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (2021) 2 copies

Woodpunk 2 copies

Trademark bugs : a legal history [short fiction] (2014) 2 copies

Man of the Strong Arm [short fiction] (2008) 2 copies

What Did Tessimond Tell You? 2 copies

BSFA Awards 2020 (2021) — Contributor — 2 copies

Der Hobbnix - Die große Tolkien-Parodie 2: Hobbnix 2 (2013) 2 copies

I, Soddit 2 copies

And tomorrow and [short fiction] 2 copies

Baedecker's Fermi [short fiction] 2 copies

The Va Linci Cod 1 copy

Der Hobbnix - Die große Tolkien-Parodie: Roman (German Edition) 1 copy

Man You Gotta Go 1 copy

New Model Computer 1 copy

Dick Does Time 1 copy

A nyomít, avagy Fizess újra! avagy Amott és újra emitt van ... (2006) 1 copy

And Future King 1 copy

The Order Of Things 1 copy

Wells At The World's End: Every Book by H. G. Wells Reviewed 1 copy

Der Hobbnix - Die große Tolkien-Parodie 1 copy

lo sghrbit 1 copy

Balancing 1 copy

A prison term of a thousand years [short fiction] 1 copy

Imperial Army [short fiction] 1 copy

Jerie [short fiction] 1 copy

The woman who bore death [short fiction] 1 copy

Throwness [short fiction] 1 copy

The Mary Anna [short fiction] 1 copy

The Chrome Chromosome 1 copy

Review: Thomas Hodgkin. Denis Bayle: a life. (Red Rocket Books 2003) 321p. £20. ISBN: 724381129524 [short fiction] 1 copy

S-bomb [short fiction] 1 copy

Dantean [short fiction] 1 copy

ReMorse [short fiction] 1 copy

The word of the Wars [short fiction] 1 copy

Wonder: A Story in Two Acts 1 copy

Constellations [short fiction] 1 copy

Gross Thousand (short story) 1 copy

In the Night of the Comet 1 copy

Gerusalemme Liberace (Short story) 1 copy

Metametamorphosis (Short story) 1 copy

Mocputer (Short story) 1 copy

Moon Poem (poem) 1 copy

Noose (short story) 1 copy

Saint Rebor (short story) 1 copy

The Sixth Star (short story) 1 copy

Thing and sick [short fiction] 1 copy

Pied Piper [short story] 1 copy

Recursitopia 1 copy

Between Nine and Eleven 1 copy

Godbombing [short fiction] 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

The Forever War (1974) — Introduction, some editions — 9,448 copies

Doomsday Book (1992) — Introduction, some editions — 7,997 copies

Lord of Light (1967) — Introduction, some editions — 5,187 copies

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) — Introduction, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 2,979 copies

The Gate to Women's Country (1988) — Introduction, some editions — 2,171 copies

Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Introduction, some editions — 1,938 copies

Cities in Flight (1970) — Introduction, some editions — 1,786 copies

Riddley Walker (1980) — Introduction, some editions — 1,347 copies

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) — Introduction, some editions — 1,189 copies

Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings (1969) — some editions — 931 copies

Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) — Introduction, some editions — 641 copies

The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Contributor — 570 copies

Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology (2008) — Contributor — 355 copies

The Snail on the Slope (1968) — Introduction, some editions — 298 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Contributor — 283 copies

Flirting with Pride & Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece (2005) — Contributor — 237 copies

Year's Best SF 11 (2006) — Contributor — 236 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributor — 232 copies

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 1 (2007) — Contributor — 222 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013) — Contributor — 218 copies

Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time (2006) — Contributor — 183 copies

The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy (2005) — Contributor — 182 copies

Elemental (2006) — Contributor — 177 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015) — Contributor — 172 copies

The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009) — Contributor — 153 copies

Live Without a Net (2003) — Contributor — 143 copies

Reach for Infinity (2014) — Contributor — 141 copies

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven (2013) — Contributor — 141 copies

The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Contributor — 132 copies

The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to… (2005) — Contributor — 128 copies

RUR & War with the Newts (1920) — Introduction — 126 copies

Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction (2011) — Contributor — 124 copies

The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) (2009) — Editor — 120 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (2012) — Contributor — 112 copies

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (2007) — Contributor — 110 copies

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 3 (2009) — Contributor — 100 copies

The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (2005) — Contributor — 99 copies

So Say We All: An Unauthorized Collection of Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica (2006) — Contributor — 81 copies

Futureshocks (2006) — Contributor — 80 copies

Boarding the Enterprise: Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek (Smart Pop… (2006) — Contributor — 79 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition (2015) — Contributor — 75 copies

Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 69 copies

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 Edition (2017) — Contributor — 67 copies

Forbidden Planets (2006) — Contributor — 60 copies

When It Changed: Science into Fiction (2009) — Contributor — 58 copies

We Think, Therefore We Are (2009) — Contributor — 57 copies

2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Contributor — 54 copies

Infinities (2002) — Contributor — 48 copies

The Lowest Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 46 copies

Fables from the Fountain (2011) — Contributor — 42 copies

Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction (2014) — Contributor — 40 copies

Dislocations: Nine Stories of Speculation and Imagination (2007) — Contributor — 36 copies

Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem (2011) — Contributor — 35 copies

Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association (2008) — Contributor — 34 copies

The Unauthorized X-Men: SF and Comic Writers on Mutants, Prejudice, and Adamantium (Smart Pop series) (2006) — Contributor — 33 copies

Best of British Fantasy 2018 (2019) — Contributor — 32 copies

The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman (2006) — Contributor — 32 copies

The Battle Royale Slam Book (2014) — Contributor — 30 copies

Best of British Science Fiction 2016 (2017) — Contributor — 30 copies

Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox (2014) — Contributor — 25 copies

The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (2017) — Contributor — 25 copies

James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007 (2006) — Contributor — 25 copies

We, Robots (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies

Investigating CSI: An Unauthorized Look Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York (2006) — Contributor — 22 copies

The Book of the Dead (2013) — Contributor — 21 copies

Jews vs. Zombies (2015) — Contributor — 21 copies

The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007) — Contributor — 20 copies

Cinema Futura (2010) — Contributor — 19 copies

King Kong Is Back!: An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! (Smart Pop series) (2005) — Contributor — 18 copies

Further Conflicts (2011) — Contributor — 15 copies

Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins (2012) — Contributor — 15 copies

Solaris Rising 1.5: An Exclusive ebook of New Science Fiction (2012) — Contributor — 15 copies

Beta-Life: Short Stories from an A-Life Future (Science-Into-Fiction) (2014) — Contributor — 14 copies

Postscripts Magazine, Issue 1 (2004) — Contributor — 14 copies

Best of British Science Fiction 2017 (2018) — Contributor — 14 copies

Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Contributor — 11 copies

Noir (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies

Postscripts Magazine, Issue 4 (2004) — Contributor — 10 copies

Pulp Idol: SFX Short Story Competition Collection 2006 (2006) — Introduction — 9 copies

The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF, Volume 3 (2017) — Contributor — 9 copies

Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep (2016) — Contributor — 7 copies

Postscripts Magazine, Issue 24/25: The New and Perfect Man (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies

Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10 Years of Newcon Press (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies

Scarlet Traces: An Anthology Based on The War of the Worlds: A War of the Worlds Anthology (2019) — Contributor — 5 copies

Adam Roberts: Critical Essays (Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays) (2016) — Foreword — 4 copies

X Marks the Spot: Celebrating 10 Years of NewCon Press (2016) — Contributor — 4 copies

Improbable Botany (2018) — Contributor — 3 copies

Thought X: Fictions and Hypotheticals (Science-Into-Fiction) (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies

BSFA Awards 2017 (2018) — Author — 2 copies

Reports from the Deep End: Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard (2024) — Contributor — 2 copies

BSFA Awards 2018 (2019) — Contributor — 2 copies

Infinity plus two (2002) — Contributor — 2 copies

BSFA Awards 2019 (2020) — Author — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Roberts, Adam Charles
Other names: Roberts, Adam
Roberts, A. R. R. R.
Brine, Don
Birthdate: 1965-06-30
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Education: University of Aberdeen (MA) (English)
Cambridge University (PhD)
Occupations: novelist
teacher of English literature and creative writing
Organizations: Royal Holloway, University of London
Disambiguation notice: Don Brine is a pseudonym of Adam Roberts (academic, critic and novelist) who also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A. R. R. R. Roberts and A3R Roberts.

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Reviews

The Midas Rain by Adam Roberts

Neo-noir: in a pollution choked future Detroit, the protagonist is trying to pull off a heist that might get him out of the dirty air and dirty deeds, by stealing from the megacorp that is constantly throwing valuable rocks from space to the ground, heedless of who gets killed as a result. But there are plenty of twists and turns in this novella. Ultimately I didn’t think it was very persuasive, but if you want a communist protagonist, here he is

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rivkat | Apr 11, 2024 |

The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts

One character's name slips between Ernest and Lester. Sloppy!

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pdej | 4 other reviews | Apr 3, 2024 |

Salt by Adam Roberts

Loses a star for not being "The Dispossessed"
Uses unreliable narration to explore Terrorism V Freedom Fighting , and the barbed nature of imperialism. There's a spectacularly unpleasant rape scene which adds little.

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P1g5purt | 10 other reviews | Mar 26, 2024 |

Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

Didn't really care for this. The tone straddles satire and realism, which made me very uncertain about how to feel about the novel's pack of oddball antihero characters. Maybe just Not My Thing.

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raschneid | 32 other reviews | Dec 19, 2023 |

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