Each chapter in this collection explores the challenge posed to science fiction, literary fiction and contemporary ideas through Roberts's novels. His use of the science fiction toolkit combined with his sharp and sometimes lyrical prose blurs the distinction that some would wish to maintain between science fiction and mainstream literature.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
On Being the Object of Critical Scrutiny
Adam Roberts
New Model Writer
Christos Callow Jr. and Anna McFarlane
Part I: Alienating Characters The Disassociated Hero
Farah Mendlesohn
Pax Per Tyrannis: Religious and Political Extremism Exposed via Menippean Satire in the Novels of Adam Roberts
Michelle Yost
New Model Readers: Changing Critical and Popular Receptions of the Science Fiction of Adam Roberts
Niall Harrison
Part II: Political Interventions Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age:
Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov's
Foundation Trilogy
Anna McFarlane
On the Topic of Plenty: Sunshine and Ice-Cream Mountains in
By Light Alone Catherine Parry
Nation-State 2.0: Visions of Europe in Adam Roberts's
New Model Army Thomas Wellmann
Part III: Ludic Authorship New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World
Paul Graham Raven
Splinter Swiftly: The Hermeneuting Parallax of Adam Roberts's Generic Auteurship
Andrew M. Butler
Part IV: Intertextual Networks Beyond Brobdingnagians and Bolsheviks: Extra-Textual Readings of
Swiftly and
Yellow Blue Tibia Glyn Morgan
Rule of Law: Reiterating Genre in
Jack Glass Paul March-Russell
Notes on Contributors
Index