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Adam Roberts
@adamroberts.bsky.social
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Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/

Latest novel "Lake of Darkness": https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/lake-of-darkness
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In an overpopulated future, surplus population is secretly converted into hallucinogens, in Harry Harrison’s MAKE SHROOM! MAKE SHROOM!
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Don't remember that episode of Star Trek.
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Bethany Black skeet says: "It's always YOU NEED YOUR HEARING CHECKED" and never "I'm going to get tested for mumbling"
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Much as Stevens declared that the only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream, I say the only critic is the critic of monstrously trivial nit-pickery.
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‘Avatar?’ ‘No Thanks, I'm Trying To Give Them Up’
The Pandoran Joe Pasquale Problematic
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November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I saw Spoon Halflife play the Astoria, 2008.
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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"Come any closer and I'll swat you with this rolled-up musical score ..."
Charles Burney, 18th-century musician and critic, his portrait: he looks mildly apprehensive, and his right arm is across his body, such that it looks as though he is about to strike out with the rolled-up music he holds in his right hand.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Snaw.
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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That's no way to talk about Thuvia.
An illustration to Jack Williamson's RED SLAG OF MARS.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Adam is making light of an otherwise weighty subject, pogonology. The monograph in question was a masterpiece of monomaniacs coming together for one monomission: Poets Ranked by Beard Weight.

Or as my wife described this project: Idiots Ranked by Weird Bait.
Cover of Beards Ranked by Beard Weight, showing Walt Whitman, hirsute American smoothie. Sir Walter Raleigh, decapitated poet and man about town. Women labourers in Cornish beard chlorine pit. Pogonometer producing unexpected glimpse into test subject's satanic soul.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Marking an essay. It's a good essay, but at one point the student's finger slipped as they typed, such that they cite "Lyrical Ballards", and now my mind is wandering (lonely as a car/that crashes hard/erotically) thinking what such a volume might contain.
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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One of Francis Bacon's "Studies for a Pope", a distorted and twisted melt of flesh where the head should be, and the body
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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This is why we proofread. Going through a piece on a science-fiction novel, I discover I had written: that it "anticipates a war between the USA and Chins".
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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"Every sperm is selfish
Every sperm is bad
If a sperm is selfless
Darwin gets quite sad"
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Sperm are selfish – and so are we
A new study hammers home how the "survival of the nicest" view makes no sense when it comes to evolution, says Jonathan R. Goodman
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November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Not so-great Scott.
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Ridley Scott's Napoleon
Bonaparte's Netherparts.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Paul Dano, looking downcast, and a ranting Daniel Day Lewis, from the milkshake scene in THERE WILL BE BLOOD. "I drink your milkshake! I drink it all up!"
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Ridley Scott's "Napoleon", the Director's Cut.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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"I took my dog to a 1930s private investigator to be neutered."

"Sam Spade?"

"He did, yes."
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The genteel way my dog crosses her arms is, as I believe the phrase goes, sending me.
September 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Urgh!
We're nine minutes into the England-Albania world-cup qualifier, and BBC sports reporter Stephen Warnock has posted: "Fluid from England". I think they should see a doctor, if that's really what's happening.
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Roses are red
Lilies are chaste
Headline from the Glasgow Herald: "'Jobby Geyser' on Glasgow Street as Burst Sewer Spews Human Waste"
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors
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Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors
George Eliot and Pascal
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November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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@runrober.bsky.social Christmas present idea?
November 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I watched the Ridley Scott "Napoleon" at the cinema. It wasn't very good. Now I'm watching the Director's Cut version, on Apple TV, because I'm a mug.
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Today's book post, courtesy of editor Simon Spiegel.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM