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Adam Roberts
@adamroberts.bsky.social
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Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/

Latest novel "Lake of Darkness": https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/lake-of-darkness
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My thoughts on the Booker winner:
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David Szalay ‘Flesh’ (2025)
The Luck of Barry István
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Related: Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman.
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US-EU copyright law differences mean that The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US before the EU but The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in the EU before the US
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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You can take my love for Big Country's PORROHMAN from my cold dead hands.
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Porrohman
YouTube video by Big Country - Topic
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November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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You've conveniently forgotten Captain Nemo's beard, which defies medical science to this day. QED, eh?
#20TrillionLeaguesUndertheSea #bookillustration
Capt. Nemo gives us an eyeful of his aquatically maximized physiognomy, especially his tentacle beard with the terminal sucker cups we all crave in our SF. He's in his underwater lair, menacing a non-mutated human submariner who's taken a wrong turn into a very trippy part of the Multiverse. This was done for Adam Robert's "20 Trillion Leagues Under the Sea", an homage to Verne that even non-Vernian SF fans will enjoy. Brit SF still rocks and Adam is one of their top authors IMO.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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If the Rains comes
They run and hide their head
They might as well be Claude
If the Rains comes
If the Rains comes
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 16h
Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Today's Wikipedia "picture of the day" is this. It seems to me that "segmented into finger-like sections" is a stretch. If your fingers look like this, you should see a doctor.
A photo of a hideous yellow tangle of Chthulu-like tentacles, accompanied by the text "Buddha's hand (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis), also known as the fingered citron, is a citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections".
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In my inbox this morning, and email that begins: "Dear $Firstname, I have been a fan of yours for many years".
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Kossowski's Peckham
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Adam Kossowski, ‘History of the Old Kent Road’ (1965)
A mural on the former North Peckham Civic Centre
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Designed by Karl Lagerfeld, I presume.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I read the Booker Prize shortlist (again). Rum do, this year - but not uninterestingly.

On the bourgeois novel:
The Booker Prize 2025
Many awards shortlists make a statement. Whether by accident or design, the clutch of books from which a given work is granted a particular gong are to one extent clear about – or at least re…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Julian cope, naked on all fours, wearing a gigantic turtle shell, hunkers into the gravel and stares confusedly at a toy red model van with the title of his album stencilled onto its side: FRIED. The photo is taken very low to the ground, and a moody grey sky fills most of the frame. It is possible that Cope had ingested mind-altering substances prior to the taking of this photograph.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I'm going to use this as the jonbar point in my upcoming alternate-history novel.
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Entirely accurate.
From the Bad Place: user @honeypluton posted "Honestly I've never seen lord of the rings that shit is none of my business", which @lukeisamazing has quote-tweeted with two words: "Tom Bombadil".
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Managed to find where @adamroberts.bsky.social keeps one of his old posts -- this good one, on Thackeray. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/unthorough...
Unthorough Thoughts on Thackeray
Can’t Say Vanity Fairer Than That
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November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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KEVIN COSTNER: I’m selling eminent British actors to football clubs. Judy Dench to Arsenal. Charles Dance to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

ME: Not Chelsea?

KC: No. Dance is with Wolves.
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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And tonight ... it's FRONKenSTEEN
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Feed: "Substack-ships On Fire, Off The Shoulder Of Orion"
By: Adam Roberts on Thursday, November 6, 2025
Carping at Coyness
Marvell's comic universe
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November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This guys legs are even longer than his name.
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Did no one think of "To Boldly Lego" as a slogan?
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Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D™ 10356 | LEGO® Icons | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop GB
LEGO® Icons Star Trek model kit for adults
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November 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Splendidly honest opening sentences for this book on Hegel.
"Nobody really knows for sure what Hegel wanted to do, let along whether he actualky managed to do it or not. But whatever it was, if the results are anything to go by, it was not easy."
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I can't be the first academic to go with the "Marvell's Comic Universe" line, surely.
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Carping at Coyness
Marvell's comic universe
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November 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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In today's post: this upcoming from @quellist1.bsky.social
Richard K Morgan NO MAN'S LAND
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I mean, I see what they mean, but the "in the entire 204-year-old history of this publication, only 15 zero-star reviews have ever been written" is a tad misleading. As if early 19thC Guardian writers were penning "the Manchester Guardian gives Lord Liverpool's new Corn Laws ZERO STARS" articles.
All’s Fair review – Kim Kardashian’s divorce drama is fascinatingly, existentially terrible Read more Text from the Guardian: Lucy Mangan gives Kim Kardashian’s new Disney+ legal drama All’s Fair zero stars, and says "in the entire 204-year-old history of this publication, only 15 zero-star reviews have ever been written, and All’s Fair is so unremittingly awful it got one of them. These are the other 14, presented here as the Guardian’s Mount Rushmore of crap."
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This really isn't what THE NAKED SUN is about.
Blurb for this old paperback copy of Asimov's THE NAKED SUN: "the disquieting novel of a future where the machines man has created to serve him rise to conquer the universe."
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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PRINCE: what's that sound?
ME: Just the tide going out.
P: You mean ... the water leaving that little cove?
M: Exactly. Revealing a little sandy beach.
P: So *this* is what it sounds like ... when coves dry.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM