Others are far more complex-like the turbine of an experimental jet engine or the core of a mysterious weapon left over from the darkest days of WWII. Some of the objects are innocuous everyday things-like a butter knife taken still greasy from a breakfast table or a dented cap popped off a bottle of beer. Nobody knows how, why or exactly when this change came about, but disparate, seemingly unconnected people have become afflicted with the uncontrollable desire to take objects and move them to other places, where the objects gather and begin to form increasingly alien, monolithic structures that appear to have vast technological implications. says Adam Roberts, a lecturer in literature at Royal Holloway College, University of London, a writer who critics call the best modern. He is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University and has written a number of critical works on both SF and 19th Century poetry.

He is the author of numerous novels and literary parodies.

The Thing Itself blended Fermi’s Paradox, Immanuel Kant’s The Critique of Pure Reason and John Carpenter’s The Thing (with a side-dish of wry. In 2015, Adam Roberts wrote an extraordinary novel that deserved more attention and love than it received. Clarke Award-nominated writer Adam Roberts ( The Thing Itself) and François Schuiten, recipient of the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s prestigious lifetime achievement award, present The Compelled, part one of a two-part sci-fi novella series and the first book-length science fiction publication that Schuiten has illustrated.Ī mysterious change has occurred in humanity. Adam Roberts is commonly described as one of the UK's most important writers of SF. The This, Adam Roberts ( Gollancz 978-1-47323-092-7, 16.99, 304pp, hc) February 2022.

The This by Adam Roberts