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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 23m

God bless you, Mistress Dempster.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 55m

Oh, snap (as I believe the youngsters say)

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 58m

Embassy No. 5, which my aunt used to smoke.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 1h

Is what you want two black-and-white baldy academics whanging on about the Strugatsky Brothers on film? Well, then: do @markbould.bsky.social and I have an event for you! www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

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Rediscovering the Strugatsky Brothers: A talk with Mark Bould and Adam Roberts

Talk: Rediscovering the Strugatsky Brothers: A talk with Mark Bould and Adam Roberts

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 2h

Novel is set in the 18th-century, which may be what was meant.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 15h

I honestly can't remember.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 16h

Wait til I tell you who the "Beatles" mentioned in "Meet The Beatles" are.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 16h

Milo believed in the Tollbooth, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. And one fine morning — So we beat on, booths against the current, borne back ceaselessly into Dictionopolis.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 17h

Fascinating account of "Rave and Let Die" here: by no means altogether positive. But some interesting observations on the function of criticism in the present time.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Off to write a 1930s-set cosy crime novel where the detective is called Tiramisu Cruffin.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's a better album than 'Stop Making Sense", though that's the one with all the plaudits.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Great title. I thought there'd be more Jamesian parody though

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very odd, almost aggressively inconsequential non-mystery. Late Innes prosaic elegance, but no "there" there.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Name of This Band is: Hawking Teds

A photograph of the late Stephen Hawking clutching a teddy bear.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As a survey contextualising a number of literary masterpieces (Eliot, Dickens, Trollope, Tennyson & others) in a fine-grained, fascinating account of the culture, history & world of Britain in the final year of the 1850s, it could not be bettered. Highly recommended. www.foyles.co.uk/book/britain...

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Britain in 1859 by Gail Marshall | Foyles

Buy Britain in 1859 by Gail Marshall from Foyles today! Click and Collect from your local Foyles.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yesterday evening I attended an lovely book launch (remember when those were a thing?) for @gailmarshall.bsky.social 's superb "Britain in 1859": www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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Britain in 1859 - Britain in 1859

Britain in 1859 - August 2026

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The initial-letter progression in this headline, A [B] C D E F [GHIJK] L, is very Carsonian. Chapeau.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

USSR: We have named our secret services SMERSH, a portmanteau of "Smert shpionam", "Death to spies". This name will strike terror in the hearts of our enemies! CHINA: hold our beer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embroid...

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Embroidered Uniform Guard - Wikipedia

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well I'm not a writer who sells very much: my first ed hbk will be the only one, I may or may not get a pbk and frankly every sale counts (or my publisher cd drop me(

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

TELL EM ABOUT THE UNCANNY HONEY, HAUNTED MUMMY

Photo of the frankly disturbing Woo Jin Joo artwork “I Hear Things Existing With Me” (2026): viscose thread embroidery, textiles, wadding, stainless steel rod, and wood. A lifesize humanoid figure entirely covered in blonde hair/pelt.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

... when you're gardening and also solving complicated mathematical puzzles?

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First in a new series: great mathematicians and their even greater hats. Today: David Hilbert.

A photograph of German mathematician David Hilbert (1862 – 1943) at the age of 50. He is still quite boyish-faced, despite his goatee and moustache; prominent ears and a spectacles. Fully one half of the image is taken up with a tall soft-looking pale hat wide-brimmed, with a fat black band. A summer hat, one would think.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You're asking if an author needs to sell copies of his book?

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was shocked to learn that Jeffrey Archer died before completing payment on the 3000 first-edition copies of my forthcoming FRANKENSTEIN REX, which he planned to buy in tribute to my excellence as a stalwart of UK SF.

David Suchet's Xitter tweet on the death of Jeffrey Archer, wherein he plugs his upcoming theatrical performance as Becket in Eliot's MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL, to which he and his wife had tickets.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wait, is that a cap? I assume it was your hair!

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

... assuming I live that long ... it may be that César Aira, me having got his hopes up, is so chagrined he puts out a hit on me.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(In, I hasten to add, a good way)

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The first Anne Carson I read was "Autobiography of a Red", when it came out in 1998. Since then I've been avid fan #1: "Beauty of the Husband" is excellent & the Herakles riff "Red Doc>" perhaps her best of all. This NYTimes profile gives something of the gist of her: www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/m...

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The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson (Gift Article)

Is she a poet? No one quite knows for sure.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Smugging rights. They're like bragging rights, but for smugness.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I met a traveller from Nazi site Who said: Two vast and golden legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, all far-right, Half-cut cult-members stand, whose zoned-, Out fanboy stance, and glaze of ketamine, Tell that its sculptors doen’t "get" irony

Elon fans has erected a gaudy gold-coloured statue of Musk in the Texas desert. In this photo they have lined up, all dressed as waiters for some reason, and posed in front of the naked legs of the erection.

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