Böcker av Adam Roberts

Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit , and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to solve the many riddles of the novel in original and often surprising ways.

Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author Kim Stanley Robinson thinks should have won the Booker.

A nightmarish vision of future war from a literary master of SF.

A Wellsian sequel to Gulliver's Travels and a unique piece of SF literature all of its own.

In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that the UN Security Council embodies a necessarily selective approach.

A PhilDickian epic of twisted realities and alien invasion set in the dog days of the Soviet Empire.

Includes a history of science fiction, and the ways in, which the genre has been used and defined. This book provides explanations of key concepts in science fiction criticism and theory. It introduces the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist, and Cyberpunk science fictions.

Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Adam Roberts offers an engaging introduction to this crucial figure, which will convince any student of contemporary theory that Jameson must be read.