Adam Roberts

It's a magnificent movie.

No need to freak! After all, pacclabmech is *not* mehee yem.

Isn't "Come On Please" an Oasis album?

PUBLIC ENEMY [*getting stung*] ow! You've got to fight the power! Fight the power! You've got to fight the power!

ME: Can you be a little more specific? Who am I fighting exactly?

PUBLIC ENEMY: [pointing to insect buzzing back towards hive] That bee!

Dark, yes, but hardly stormy!

He's a goner!

I can do that posthumously, can't I?

Surely that would make him UNIVERSALLY BELOVED.

A still from the new Guy Ritchie YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES. Somebody is murdering the "Apostles". According to this list next up is: Professor Roberts!

Uh-oh ...

I'm sorry to hear this Martin! Hope the rib isn't actually broken.

There is, famously, a reference to Mary Shelley's novel in "Great Expectations"

A screenshot from the 1898 Insurance and Financial Gazette. The plaintiff is named as "Mr Samuel Frankenstein"; "Mr H. F. Dickens Q.C." appears on behalf of the plaintiff. Frankenstein wants his £52 back, that he paid for shares in the "Gavin House-to-House Cycle and Insurance Company Limited", which proved fraudulent.

Today I learned that, in 1898, Charles Dickens's son Henry Fielding Dickens, a barrister, prosecuted a fraudulent Insurance Office on behalf of a client called Frankenstein.

coffer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Also worth your time: this Wiktionary explanation of the word "coffer" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coffer#...

‘Emembededed’ A story

LoD is currently £4.89 on Amazon, the 81,662th bestselling title on that site. But if you don't want to shell out that kind of money, then you can read this new short story for free, gratis and without putting money into Amazon's coffers: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/emembededed

"A brilliant book, heady and hearty, not simple nor purely pleasurable, which is to say Yet Another Fucking Adam Roberts Novel. Who does this man think he is."

At the risk of indulging myself, I quote the review's final paragraph. Not purely pleasurable: qute right!

LAKE OF DARKNESS (Adam Roberts, 2024). It’s been a while since I read one of Adam’s books. One thing that interests me about him is that he’s an immediately accessible writer — his prose is almost breezy, often f…

A @waxbanks.bsky.social review of "Lake of Darkness": waxbanks.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/l...

Bravo!

MOBY RUCK

I know it! Used to read it to my kids.

He sits on a throne of lies.

I wrote a biography of H G Wells and of course read all of West: a very significant writer. I haven't published specifically on her, except blog-posts about her various novels, but would very happily endorse a petition for a blue plaque.

‘Emembededed’ A story

Here's a new story what I wrote: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/emembededed

Certainly, latterly.

Tempted to write a short cultural history of "It was a dark and stormy night" novel openings.

The opening paragraph of Percy Bysshe Shelley's ST IRVYNE: "Red thunder-clouds, borne on the wings of the midnight whirlwind, floated, at fits, athwart the crimson-coloured orbit of the moon; the rising fierceness of the blast sighed through the stunted shrubs, which, bending before its violence, inclined towards the rocks whereon they grew: over the blackened expanse of heaven, at intervals, was spread the blue lightning's flash; it played upon the granite heights, and, with momentary brilliancy, disclosed the terrific scenery of the Alps, whose gigantic and mishapen summits, reddened by the transitory moon-beam, were crossed by black fleeting fragments of the tempest-clouds. The rain, in big drops, began to descend, and the thunder-peals, with louder and more deafening crash, to shake the zenith, till the long-protracted war, echoing from cavern to cavern, died, in indistinct murmurs, amidst the far-extended chain of mountains."

"It was a dark and stormy night", 1810 version.