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ⓘ About Adam Roberts
About Adam Roberts Adam Roberts is a British author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels. He holds the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and served as vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society in 2018. Beyond writing fiction, he works as a critic and scholar. His background in literature and criticism informs his thoughtful approach to storytelling. Roberts creates characters that feel real and relatable, drawing readers into their journeys. His protagonists often face complex challenges, making their stories gripping from start to finish. The way he builds their personalities and decisions keeps the narrative engaging. Readers find his books entertaining because he balances depth with excitement.
All Book Series by Adam Roberts
Bored of the Rings
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2012 Anthology · Henry N. Beard,The Harvard Lampoon
Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 2012 Anthology · Tanith Lee
Last and First Contacts
Book 2 of 12 · published 2012 Anthology · Stephen Baxter
Stories from the Northern Road
Book 3 of 12 · published 2012 Anthology · Tony Ballantyne
Mementoes
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2016 Anthology · Keith Brooke
Shelter
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2018 Anthology · Dave Hutchinson
Sanctuary
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2023 Anthology · Dave Hutchinson
By the Pricking of Her Thumb
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2018
I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas
Book 11 of 27 · published 2009 Co-authored · Zom Leech
Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Never Be
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2004
Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2015
Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
Book 4 of 6 · published 2014
Landor's Cleanness: A Study of Walter Savage Landor
Book 5 of 6 · published 2014
It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?
Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2020
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Series opener · book 1 of 49 · published 2009 Co-authored · Mark Bould,Sherryl Vint
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science
Book 2 of 49 · published 2010 Anthology · Manuela Rossini,Bruce Clarke
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Book 3 of 49 · published 2011 Anthology · Alison Donnell,Michael A. Bucknor
The Routledge Companion to World Literature
Book 4 of 49 · published 2011 Anthology · David Damrosch,Djelal Kadir,Theo D'haen
The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature
Book 5 of 49 · published 2012 Anthology · Brian McHale,Joe Bray,Alison Gibbons
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature
Book 6 of 49 · published 2012 Anthology · Suzanne Bost
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
Book 7 of 49 · published 2014 Anthology · Rachel C.Lee
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing
Book 8 of 49 · published 2015 Anthology · Carl Thompson
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion
Book 9 of 49 · published 2016 Anthology · Mark Knight
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
Book 10 of 49 · published 2017 Anthology · Ursula K. Heise,Daniel A. Barber,Jon Christensen,Michelle Niemann
The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies
Book 11 of 49 · published 2017 Anthology · Wilfried Raussert
The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature
Book 12 of 49 · published 2017 Anthology · John Stephens
The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks
Book 13 of 49 · published 2017 Anthology · Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights
Book 14 of 49 · published 2018 Anthology · Alexandra Schultheis Moore,Sophia A. McClennen
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
Book 15 of 49 · published 2018 Anthology · Donna Lee Brien,Lorna Piatti-Farnell
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History
Book 16 of 49 · published 2018 Anthology · May Hawas
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics
Book 17 of 49 · published 2018 Anthology · Matt Seybold,Michelle Chihara
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing
Book 18 of 49 · published 2018 Anthology · Aroosa Kanwal,Saiyma Aslam
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction
Book 19 of 49 · published 2019 Anthology · Robert Eaglestone
The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies
Book 20 of 49 · published 2019 Anthology · Takayuki Tatsumi,Nina Morgan,Alfred Hornung
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature
Book 21 of 49 · published 2019 Anthology · Dennis Denisoff,Talia Schaffer
Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books
Book 22 of 49 · published 2020 Anthology · Richard Bradford,Alison Baverstock,Madelena Gonzalez
The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
Book 23 of 49 · published 2020 Anthology · Brian Brown
The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction
Book 24 of 49 · published 2020 Anthology · Andrew Pepper,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Janice Allan
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma
Book 25 of 49 · published 2020 Anthology · Colin Davis,Hanna Meretoja
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature
Book 26 of 49 · published 2020 Anthology · Neil Murphy,W Michelle Wang,Daniel K. Jernigan
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
Book 27 of 49 · published 2020 Anthology · Jessica Gildersleeve
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class
Book 28 of 49 · published 2021 Anthology · Gloria McMillan
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature
Book 29 of 49 · published 2021 Anthology · Tomasz Bilczewski
The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen
Book 30 of 49 · published 2021 Anthology · Maria H. Frawley,Cheryl A. Wilson,Amit S. Yahav
The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine
Book 31 of 49 · published 2021 Anthology · Tim Lanzendörfer
The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke
Book 32 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Riccardo Moratto
The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature
Book 33 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Michael Bryson
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion
Book 34 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Bradley J. Irish,Patrick Colm Hogan,Lalita Pandit Hogan
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South
Book 35 of 49 · published 2022 Multi-author collection
The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory
Book 36 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Paul Dawson
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
Book 37 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Lieven Ameel
The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature
Book 38 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Raluca Rădulescu,Sif Rikhardsdottir
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers
Book 39 of 49 · published 2022 Anthology · Ann R. Hawkins,Catherine S Blackwell,E Leigh Bonds
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
Book 40 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Brandon Chua,Elizabeth Ho
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English
Book 41 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Matthew Stratton
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media
Book 42 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Julia Round,Astrid Ensslin,Bronwen Thomas
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics
Book 43 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Julia Fiedorczuk,Mary Newell,Bernard Quetchenbach,Orchid Tierney
The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror
Book 44 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Wayne Johnson,Robert Edgar
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice
Book 45 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Masood Ashraf Raja,Nick T. C. Lu
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture
Book 46 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism
Book 47 of 49 · published 2023 Anthology · Fiona Tolan,Rachel Carroll
The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature
Book 48 of 49 · published 2024 Anthology · Ben Clarke
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing
Latest in the series · book 49 of 49 · published 2024 Anthology · Anne Fogarty,Eugene O'Brien
Seven Seasons of Buffy
Series opener · book 1 of 41 · published 2003 Anthology · 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
Five Seasons of Angel
Book 3 of 41 · published 2004 Anthology · 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
Stepping through the Stargate
Book 4 of 41 · published 2004 Anthology · P.N. Elrod,Roxanne Conrad
What Would Sipowicz Do? Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue
Book 5 of 41 · published 2004 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth,Shanna Caughey
The War of the Worlds
Book 8 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans
Navigating the Golden Compass
Book 9 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth
Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets
Book 11 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth
Flirting With Pride And Prejudice
Book 12 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Crusie
King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape!
Book 14 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · David Brin
Totally Charmed
Book 15 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Maggie Shayne,Rebecca York,Jody Lynn Nye,Evelyn Vaughn,Tanya Huff,Vera Nazarian,Jennifer Crusie
The Unauthorized X-Men
Book 16 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Len Wein
This Is Chick-Lit
Book 17 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Welcome to Wisteria Lane
Book 18 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Leah Wilson
The Battle for Azeroth
Book 20 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · 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
Boarding the Enterprise
Book 22 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Robert J. Sawyer,David Gerrold
So Say We All
Book 23 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Peter B. Lloyd,Richard Hatch
Investigating CSI
Book 24 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Donn Cortez
Coffee at Luke's
Book 26 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Jennifer Crusie
Jack Bauer for President
Book 28 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Richard Miniter
Halo Effect
Book 29 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Thomason
Serenity Found
Book 33 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Orson Scott Card,Jacob Clifton,Michael Marano,Jane Espenson,Natalie Haynes,Nathan Fillion
Batman Unauthorized
Book 35 of 41 · published 2008 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Alan J. Porter
Secrets of the Dragon Riders
Book 36 of 41 · published 2008 Anthology · James A. Owen
James Bond in the 21st Century
Book 38 of 41 · published 2009 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Glenn Yeffeth
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club
Latest in the series · book 41 of 41 · published 2015 Anthology · Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt
Solaris Rising 2
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2013 Anthology · 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
Shoreline of Infinity 1
Series opener · book 1 of 41 · published 2015 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 2
Book 2 of 41 · published 2015 Anthology · Iain M. Banks,Anton Rose,Duncan Lunan,Megan Neumann,Steve Green,Ian Hunter,Noel Chidwick,Ken Poyner,Iain Maloney,Ken McLeod,Michael Fontana,Tyler J Petty,Ryan L. Daly,Bethany Ruth Anderson,Steve Simpson,Kathy Steinemann,Ann Craig,Elsa Bouet,Russell Jones
Shoreline of Infinity 3
Book 3 of 41 · published 2016 Anthology · Jane Yolen,Edd Vick,Marge Simon,David Lindsay,Ian Hunter,Noel Chidwick,Guy Stewart,Sára Júlia,J.K. Fulton,Miriam Johnson,Thomas Broderick,Tracey S. Rosenberg,Dee Raspin,Sara Ljeskovac
Shoreline of Infinity 4
Book 4 of 41 · published 2016 Anthology · Ken MacLeod,Holly Schofield,Tricia Sullivan,Gary Gibson,Ruth E.J. Booth,Shelly Bryant,Robert Neilson,Paul Holmes,Noel Chidwick,Andrew J. Wilson,Caroline Grebbell,Michael Stroh,Clive Tern,Lewis Grassic Gibbon,Benjamin Dodds,Sára Júlia,J. Leslie Mitchell
Shoreline of Infinity 5
Book 5 of 41 · published 2016 Anthology · Craig Thompson,George MacDonald,Ruth E.J. Booth,ThomasClark,Paul Holmes,Noel Chidwick,Sára Júlia,Monica Burns,Iain Maloney,Andrew Blair,Rob Butler,Adam Connors,Jack Schouten,Simon Mordem,Ruth Aylett,Stuart Beel,Net Newman,Daniel Rosen,Gary Dalkin
Shoreline of Infinity 7
Book 7 of 41 · published 2017 Anthology · Andrew Lang,Shannon Connor Winward,May Kendall,David L. Clements,Ruth E.J. Booth,Tim Major,Paul Holmes,Noel Chidwick,Monica Burns,Dan Grace,Davyne DeSye,Katie Gray,Mark Toner,Terry Jackman,Daniel Soule,Steve Pickering
Shoreline of Infinity 8½
Book 9 of 41 · published 2017 Co-authored · Iain M. Banks,Jane Yolen,Charles Stross,Ken MacLeod,Nalo Hopkinson,Jo Walton,Marge Simon,Gary Gibson,Ada Palmer,Ruth E.J. Booth,ThomasClark,Noel Chidwick,Pippa Goldschmidt,Andrew J. Wilson,Caroline Grebbell,Benjamin Dodds,Iain Maloney,Des Raspin,Katie Gray,Mark Toner,Shelley Bryant,Grahame Barrasford Young,Russell Jones
Shoreline of Infinity 9
Book 10 of 41 · published 2017 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 10
Book 11 of 41 · published 2017 Anthology · Die Booth,Noel Chidwick,Ephiny Gale,Daniel Rosen,Marija Smits,Matthew Castle,SK Farrell,Serna Johe,K.E. Macphee,Chris Baily
Shoreline of Infinity 11
Book 12 of 41 · published 2018 Anthology · Karen Heuler
Shoreline of Infinity 12
Book 13 of 41 · published 2018 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 13
Book 14 of 41 · published 2018 Anthology · Premee Mohamed,Bo Balder,Tim Major,Noel Chidwick,Preston Grassmann,Rachel Armstrong,Caroline Grebbell,Esme Carpenter,Laura Young
Shoreline of Infinity 14
Book 15 of 41 · published 2019 Anthology · Ken MacLeod,Neil Williamson,Cat Hellisen,Andrew Reichard,Noel Chidwick,Eris Young,Thomas Broderick,Emma Levin,Rhiannon Grist,Vicki Jarrett
Shoreline of Infinity 15
Book 16 of 41 · published 2019 Anthology · Gareth L. Powell,Callum McSorley,Tim Major,Tiffany Meuret,Noel Chidwick,Teika Marija Smits,DA D’Amico,Lidia Molina Whyte,E.M. Faulds,J.G. Sarmiento
Shoreline of Infinity 16
Book 17 of 41 · published 2019 Anthology · Allen Ashley,Ahmed A. Khan,Noel Chidwick,Rachel Plummer,Helen French,Laura Duerr,Petra Kuppers,Kate Macdonald,Vicki Jarrett,Calum L Macleoid
Shoreline of Infinity 17
Book 18 of 41 · published 2020 Anthology · Chris Beckett,Bo Balder,Ruth E.J. Booth,Noel Chidwick,Brian M. Milton,Dave Ring,Simon Fung,S.A.M. Rundell,Peyman Saremian,Jeremey Nelson
Shoreline of Infinity 18
Book 19 of 41 · published 2020 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 19
Book 20 of 41 · published 2020 Anthology · Ian Watson,Tony Ballantyne,Chris Beckett,F.J. Bergmann,Sherry Shahan,Raman Mundair,Noel Chidwick,Pippa Goldschmidt,Davide Mana,Mariah Montoya,Teika Marija Smits,Hûw Steer,Anya Ow,Gregory A. Austin
Shoreline of Infinity 20
Book 21 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 21
Book 22 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 22
Book 23 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 23
Book 24 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 24
Book 25 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 25
Book 26 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Elana Gomel,Gary Gibson,Cat Hellisen,Noel Chidwick,E. M. Faulds,David L Clements,Simon Nagel,Alex Storer
Shoreline of Infinity 27
Book 28 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Callum McSorley,Noel Chidwick,Christopher Collingwood,Alex Storer,Jack Schouten,Jo Ross-Barrett,RV Neville
Shoreline of Infinity 29
Book 30 of 41 · published 2021 Anthology · Noel Chidwick
Shoreline of Infinity 30
Book 31 of 41 · published 2022 Anthology · Eric Brown,Gary Gibson,Cat Hellisen,Noel Chidwick,Christopher R. Muscato,Teika Marina Smits,Raymond W Gallacher
Shoreline of Infinity 31
Book 32 of 41 · published 2022 Anthology · Ken MacLeod,Andy McKell,Chris Barnham,Bo Balder,Ruth E.J. Booth,Heather Valentine,Noel Chidwick,Lindz McLeod,Adam Marx
Shoreline of Infinity 32
Book 33 of 41 · published 2022 Co-authored · Jane Yolen,Sofia Samatar,Cat Hellisen,Noel Chidwick,Teika Marija Smits,Dave Weaver,Bethany Davis,Laura Scotland,Woody Dismukes,Edmind Fines
Shoreline of Infinity 33
Book 34 of 41 · published 2022 Anthology · T.L. Huchu,Callum McSorley,Noel Chidwick,Benjamin C. Kinney,Lucy Zhang,Brent Baldwin,M.H. Ayinde,M. Luke McDonell,David Lawrie,Jesse Rowell
Shoreline of Infinity 34
Book 35 of 41 · published 2023 Anthology · Ian Whates,Vaughan Stanger,Eris Young,L.R. Lam,Lyndsey Croal,Moussa Ould Ebnou,Robert Bagnall,Louis Evans,Emma Levin
Shoreline of Infinity 35
Book 36 of 41 · published 2023 Anthology · Ken MacLeod,Eric Brown,John Buchan,Callum McSorley,Noel Chidwick,Rachel Plummer,Jeda Pearl,T.H. Dray,Beth Nuttall
Shoreline of Infinity 36
Book 37 of 41 · published 2023 Anthology · Kim Stanley Robinson,Noel Chidwick,Christopher R. Muscato,Lyndsey Croal,Tania Chen,Rhiannon Grist,Gessica Sakamoto Martini,Knighton Knighton,Sara Kate Ellis,Greta Colombani
Shoreline of Infinity 37
Book 38 of 41 · published 2024 Anthology · Andrew Knighton
Shoreline of Infinity 38
Book 39 of 41 · published 2024 Anthology · Tim Major,David McGillveray,Ruth E.J. Booth,Noel Chidwick,Paul McQuade,Andrew Kozma,Jeda Pearl,Bram E. Gieben,Anna Ziemons-McLean,Anna Cheung,Dylan Kwok,LeeAnn Perry,M.A.R. Rinaldi,S.J. Groenewegen
Shoreline of Infinity 39
Book 40 of 41 · published 2025 Anthology · Eugen Bacon,Noel Chidwick,Douglas Gwilym,Kenzie Lappin,Jamie M Boyd,M Shedric Simpson,Darryl A Smith,Caitriana NicNeacail,Ruth EJ Booth
Shoreline of Infinity 40
Latest in the series · book 41 of 41 · published 2026 Anthology · Chris Kelso,Noel Chidwick,Pippa Goldschmidt,Hiron Ennes,John J Kennedy,Scott Payne,T. Lucas Earle,Franki Halliwell,Timothy Quinn,Joyce Bingham
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Book 3 of 31 · published 2003
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition
Book 6 of 31 · published 2007
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 3
Book 20 of 31 · published 2017
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition
Latest in the series · book 31 of 31 · published 2017
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Adam Roberts?
About Adam Roberts Adam Roberts is a British author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels. He holds the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and served as vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society in 2018.
Which Adam Roberts series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Cardboard Box of the Rings series, the earliest of Adam Roberts's multi-book series: it opens with The Soddit (2003) and runs to 3 books across 2003–2012, ending with Bored of the Rings (2012). Adam Roberts's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Adam Roberts written?
Adam Roberts has 248 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1996 and 2026. 172 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Routledge Literature Companions series with 49 books — and 76 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Adam Roberts's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Adam Roberts's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Cardboard Box of the Rings (2003–2012, 3 books), Routledge Literature Companions (2009–2024, 49 books) and The Real-Town Murders (2017–2018, 2 books), plus 1 more.
How are Adam Roberts's books organised into series?
This guide splits Adam Roberts's 248 books into 9 named series and 76 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Routledge Literature Companions (49 books, 2009–2024); Cardboard Box of the Rings (3 books, 2003–2012); The Aftermath (3 books, 2018–2023); The Real-Town Murders (2 books, 2017–2018); Smart Pop (41 books, 2003–2015), plus 4 further series.