Adam Roberts is a British author of science fiction and fantasy novels. Adam is known for his inventive plots, sharp wit, and often satirical take on genre conventions. He has written numerous novels, including Salt and Jack Glass, as well as critical works on science fiction and literature. Roberts’ writing blends imaginative world-building with humour and social commentary, making him one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary speculative fiction.

Adam Roberts made his debut as a novelist in 2000 with Salt. Below is a list of Adam Roberts’ books in order of when they were first released:

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Publication Order of Cardboard Box of the Rings Books

(as A. R. R. R. Roberts)

Publication Order of Imaginings Books

Colder Greyer Stones (By: Tanith Lee)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Last and First Contacts (By: Stephen Baxter)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories from the Northern Road (By: Tony Ballantyne)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Objects in Dreams (By: Lisa Tuttle)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Microcosmos (By: Nina Allan)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Feast and Famine (By: Adrian Tchaikovsky)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twember (By: Steve Rasnic Tem)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Strange Visitors (By: Eric Brown)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saint Rebor(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sleeps With Angels (By: Dave Hutchinson)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Light Warden (By: Liz Williams)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mementoes (By: Keith Brooke)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The Aftermath Books

(with Dave Hutchinson)

Shelter (By: Dave Hutchinson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Haven(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sanctuary (By: Dave Hutchinson)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The Real-Town Murders Books

The Real-Town Murders(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
By the Pricking of Her Thumb(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Salt(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stone(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Polystom: Two Universes in One Reality(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Snow(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gradisil(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Splinter(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Land of the Headless(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Swiftly(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yellow Blue Tibia(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (With: Zom Leech)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
New Model Army(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
By Light Alone(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jack Glass(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bête(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thing Itself(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bethany(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Compelled(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Purgatory Mount(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The This(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
High(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lake of Darkness(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Park Polar(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jupiter Magnified(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anticopernicus(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wodwo Vergil(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lake Boy(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man Who Would Be Kling(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stealing For The Sky(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Midas Rain(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Swoon(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Never Be(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Adam Robots(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The History of Science Fiction(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Riddles of the Hobbit(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Landor's Cleanness: A Study of Walter Savage Landor(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Year's Best SF Anthology Books

Year's Best SF(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 2(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 3(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 4(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 5(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 6(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 7(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 8(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 9(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 10(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 11(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 12(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 13(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 14(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 15(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 16(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 17(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 18(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Routledge Literature Companions Books

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (With: Andrew Butler,Mark Bould,Sherryl Vint)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (By: Manuela Rossini,Bruce Clarke)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (By: Alison Donnell,Michael A. Bucknor)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (By: Brian McHale,Joe Bray,Alison Gibbons)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature (By: Suzanne Bost)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature (By: Rachel C.Lee)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (By: Carl Thompson)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion (By: Mark Knight)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (By: Ursula K. Heise,Daniel A. Barber,Jon Christensen,Michelle Niemann)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies (By: Wilfried Raussert)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature (By: John Stephens)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks (By: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (By: Alexandra Schultheis Moore,Sophia A. McClennen)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (By: Donna Lee Brien,Lorna Piatti-Farnell)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History (By: May Hawas)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics (By: Matt Seybold,Michelle Chihara)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (By: Aroosa Kanwal,Saiyma Aslam)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (By: Robert Eaglestone)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies (By: Takayuki Tatsumi,Nina Morgan,Alfred Hornung)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature (By: Dennis Denisoff,Talia Schaffer)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books (By: Richard Bradford,Alison Baverstock,Madelena Gonzalez)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (By: Brian Brown)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (By: Andrew Pepper,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Janice Allan)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (By: Colin Davis,Hanna Meretoja)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature (By: Neil Murphy,W Michelle Wang,Daniel K. Jernigan)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature (By: Jessica Gildersleeve)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class (By: Gloria McMillan)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature (By: Tomasz Bilczewski)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen (By: Maria H. Frawley,Cheryl A. Wilson,Amit S. Yahav)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (By: Tim Lanzendörfer)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke (By: Riccardo Moratto)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature (By: Michael Bryson)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (By: Bradley J. Irish,Patrick Colm Hogan,Lalita Pandit Hogan)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (By: )(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (By: Paul Dawson)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies (By: Lieven Ameel)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to World Literature (By: David Damrosch,Djelal Kadir,Theo D'haen)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (By: Raluca Rădulescu,Sif Rikhardsdottir)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers (By: Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S Blackwell,E Leigh Bonds)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century (By: Brandon Chua,Elizabeth Ho)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (By: Matthew Stratton)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media (By: Julia Round,Astrid Ensslin,Bronwen Thomas)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (By: Julia Fiedorczuk,Mary Newell,Bernard Quetchenbach,Orchid Tierney)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (By: Wayne Johnson,Robert Edgar)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice (By: Masood Ashraf Raja,Nick T. C. Lu)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture (By: Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism (By: Fiona Tolan,Rachel Carroll)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature (By: Ben Clarke)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (By: Anne Fogarty,Eugene O'Brien)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Smart Pop Books

Seven Seasons of Buffy (By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Taking the Red Pill (By: Glenn Yeffeth)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Five Seasons of Angel (By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Peter S. Beagle,Laura Anne Gilman,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Josepha Sherman,Laura Resnick,Candace Havens,Glenn Yeffeth,Michelle Sagara,Steven Harper,Amy Berner,Marguerite Krause,Abbie Bernstein,Jennifer Crusie,Don DeBrandt,K. Stoddard Hayes,Joy Davidson,Don Kerns)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stepping through the Stargate (By: P.N. Elrod,Roxanne Conrad)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Anthology at the End of the Universe(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Finding Serenity (By: Robert Brian Taylor)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The War of the Worlds (By: Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Navigating the Golden Compass (By: Glenn Yeffeth)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alias Assumed (By: Tracy S. Morris)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets (By: Glenn Yeffeth)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flirting With Pride And Prejudice (By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Crusie)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Revisiting Narnia (By: Shanna Caughey)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! (By: David Brin)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Totally Charmed (By: Maggie Shayne,Rebecca York,Jody Lynn Nye,Evelyn Vaughn,Tanya Huff,Vera Nazarian,Jennifer Crusie)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Unauthorized X-Men (By: Leah Wilson,Len Wein)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
This Is Chick-Lit (By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Welcome to Wisteria Lane (By: Leah Wilson)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man from Krypton (By: Glenn Yeffeth)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Battle for Azeroth (By: Jody Lynn Nye,Justina Robson,Doranna Durgin,Bill Fawcett,Mel White,James John Bell,James M. Ward,Scott Cuthbertson,Nancy Berman,Jerry Jackson,Chris McCubbin,Maressa Hecht Orzack,Nancy Durgin)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Getting Lost (By: Orson Scott Card)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boarding the Enterprise (By: Robert J. Sawyer,David Gerrold)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
So Say We All (By: Peter B. Lloyd,Richard Hatch)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Investigating CSI (By: Leah Wilson,Donn Cortez)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Coffee at Luke's (By: Leah Wilson,Jennifer Crusie)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Webslinger (By: Leah Wilson,Gerry Conway)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Halo Effect (By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Thomason)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Neptune Noir (By: Rob Thomas)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Perfectly Plum (By: Leah Wilson)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Grey's Anatomy 101 (By: Leah Wilson)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Serenity Found (By: Orson Scott Card,Jacob Clifton,Michael Marano,Jane Espenson,Natalie Haynes,Nathan Fillion)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
House Unauthorized (By: Leah Wilson)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Batman Unauthorized (By: Leah Wilson)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Secrets of the Dragon Riders (By: James A. Owen)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Hunt (By: Leah Wilson)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
James Bond in the 21st Century (By: Leah Wilson,Glenn Yeffeth)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ardeur (By: Laurell K. Hamilton)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Taste of True Blood (By: Leah Wilson)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (By: Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Solaris Rising Anthology Books

Solaris Rising (With: Pat Cadigan,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lavie Tidhar,Ken MacLeod,Peter F. Hamilton,Ian Watson,Eric Brown,Paul Di Filippo,Alastair Reynolds,Tricia Sullivan,Ian Whates,Richard Salter)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Solaris Rising 1.5 (With: Paul Cornell,Tanith Lee,Mike Resnick,Aliette de Bodard,Paul Di Filippo,Ian Whates,Gareth L. Powell,Sarah Lotz,Philip Vine)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Solaris Rising 2 (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Paul Cornell,Liz Williams,James Lovegrove,Robert Reed,Eugie Foster,Nancy Kress,Nick Harkaway,Norman Spinrad,Vandana Singh,Kim Lakin-Smith,Ian Whates,Paul Cornell, Jr.,Kay Kenyon,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Martin Sketchley,Allan Steele)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Adam Roberts Synopses: Salt is a standalone novel by Adam Roberts. Two narrators recount the growing tensions between their communities as they travel to a distant planet. They establish a new colony on Salt, but old conflicts and mistrust simmer beneath the surface. As resources dwindle and rivalries intensify, the fragile peace collapses into outright war, with devastating consequences for everyone involved.

Set on a harsh, desolate world shaped by imperfectly remembered religions, Salt explores how human prejudices and cultural memory can shape – and ultimately destroy – a society.

High by Adam Roberts is a standalone novel. Elleke Boerhaave’s husband is one of the wealthiest – and most dangerous – men in the solar system. After successfully separating from him, Elleke faces a new nightmare: to pre-empt a custody battle over their eleven-year-old daughter Patt, he has kidnapped her and taken her to a place beyond Earth’s reach – Mars.

Desperate to get Patt back, Elleke hires Hi, a man with a very special set of skills, to perform an extraction. His mission: travel to Mars, locate Patt, and bring her home.

But the odds are staggering. The journey takes six to nine months, every berth is logged, and Boerhaave’s compound on the slopes of Arsis Mons is protected by elite soldiers and every security device money can buy. And even if Hi reaches Patt, there’s no obvious way to get her back to Earth.

It’s the kind of challenge Hi lives for.

In The Thing Itself, Adam Roberts turns his attention to the Fermi Paradox in a taut, claustrophobic tale reminiscent of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Two men are stationed at a remote Antarctic research base, passing the long, frozen days in isolation. Tensions rise over a love letter one of them has received: one man is practical and open, the other surly, superior, and obsessed with a single book – Kant’s philosophy.

As a storm cuts them off from the outside world, their debates about Kant, reality, and the emptiness of the universe grow bitter. Hatred builds between them, and soon they discover that they are not alone.

The This is a standalone title by Adam Roberts. The newest social media platform everyone is talking about isn’t just online – it grows into your brain when injected under the roof of your mouth, connecting you to others without ever picking up a phone. Its followers are multiplying. Its detractors call it a cult. For one journalist, hired to write a fluff-piece on the CEO, this platform will change the world forever.

Adan just wants to stay home with his smart companion Elegy – friend, confidante, and more. But when his mother flees to Europe to join a cult, leaving him penniless, he’s forced to enlist in the army. Sentient robots are invading America, yet Adan seems uniquely able to survive their attacks. He may have a purpose, even if he doesn’t yet know what it is.

Far in the future, humanity faces its final conflict with a hivemind of AIs. One woman has created a weapon that could turn the tide – but she is trapped on a hivemind ship, imprisoned and alone. The fate of both human and machine hangs in the balance.

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