@booklet {9875, title = {{\textquotedblleft}In the Night of the Comet: A Sequel to H. G. Wells{\textquoteright} In the Days of the Comet{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Best of British Science Fiction 2017}, year = {2017}, note = {

Originally published in the author\’s blog in May 2017 (http://www.adamroberts.com/2017/05/), but it appears to be no longer accessible.\ 

}, month = {2017}, pages = {44-57}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1905-06 Wells in which the comet in Wells that brings a eutopia is followed some years by a second comet that produces a dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {Donna Scott} } @booklet {9217, title = {"Trademark Bugs: A Legal History{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Reach for Infinity}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK\’S Healthcare Workers.\ Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook.\ 

}, month = {2015}, pages = {179-99}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the \“cures\”, and becomes more powerful than any government.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {10585, title = {By Light Alone}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, publisher = {Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopian satire focusing on the greed of the extremely wealthy with an extreme rich/poor divide and with the poor fed so inadequately, women can\’t have children.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)} } @booklet {10584, title = {New Model Army}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)} } @booklet {6139, title = {"The Man of the Strong Arm"}, howpublished = {Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {215-35}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia with elements of satire on SF. The dystopia is a male chauvinist society that honors the strongest man and keeps most men in ignorance. Women are essentially slaves, but there is a strong women\&$\#$39;s underground.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {5985, title = {"A Distillation of Grace"}, howpublished = {The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {145-61}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Nottingham, Eng.}, abstract = {

Story about a religion that develops around producing a perfect genetic specimen by only allowing one child per family and controlling the gender so that equal numbers are born. Ultimately, this will reduce the generations to one person.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {George Mann} } @booklet {5986, title = {Land of the Headless: A Simple Story}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)} } @booklet {5827, title = {"Here Comes the Flood"}, howpublished = {Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {139-55}, publisher = {Rackstraw Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of official state terrorism.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {Farah Mendlesohn} } @booklet {5335, title = {"Swiftly"}, howpublished = {SciFiction}, year = {2002}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be\ (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34.

}, month = {2002}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift\&$\#$39;s Gulliver\&$\#$39;s Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his \"Eleanor\", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247).

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, url = {www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted April 3, 2002. No longer available online.}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)} } @booklet {5222, title = {Park Polar}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {PS Publishing}, address = {Leeds, Eng.}, abstract = {

Ecological and corporate dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)} } @booklet {10583, title = {Salt}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Golancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

2000 Roberts, Adam [Charles] (b. 1965). Salt. London: Gollancz. PU\ 

The novel beings on a spaceship on its way to establishing a colony. A difference in cultures or ideologies emerges and continues after the settle with one faction a military dictatorship and the other an anarchist society.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)} }