Adam Roberts, Anticopernicus (2011) and Bethany (2016)

Let us now speak of Adam Roberts, a man I hold in a certain amount of awe for his sheer intellectual firepower. He's a professor of nineteenth century literature, and writes and edits books in that capacity; but he's also a prolific critic of science fiction, around which most of his blogging centers. And then, he's a prolific science fiction writer himself. All this while also having a family; he's not some kind of hermit. One truly is unable to understand how there are enough hours in the day. I mostly know him through his blogging, which I've always enjoyed. He's always throwing out these great insights willy nilly. It's enough to make one jealous.

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