Right after I got done readingthe A.I. anthology We Think Therefore We Are , and appreciatingAdam Roberts ‘ Garden - Of - Eden chronicle “ Adam Robots ” as one of the solicitation ’s most think - provoking stories , Pyr Books’Lou Andersposted a summing up of all of Roberts ’ novel and an explanation of why he deserves more literary celebrity as a post - modern deceiver :
https://gizmodo.com/the-brightest-artificial-minds-are-fragmentary-and-oft-5145791
DeathRay wrote of him lately that , “ You never know on the button what you ’re get to get with an Adam Roberts novel , and that ’s a strong suit : each of his books is very different in feel from the last . ”
I certainly call back it ’s a intensity , but somehow - I’m ashamed to say - refusing to do the same former affair over and over can hurt you over here in the States when it come clip to build up a dedicated readership . And Adam excels at hard protagonists , often employing people whose values are starkly in contrast to our own , and he loves utilizing the “ unreliable narrator , ” someone who has reason to lie and therefore ca n’t be alone trusted . It ’s a technique that is very intimate in the mystery story genre , but does n’t always go down well in SF . Honestly , I think if he ’d been published over here by a mainstream publisher , he ’d be regard as a serious literary sensation like Michael Chabon . As it is , I trust he will forgive me if I say he ’s something of a well - kept secret . But perhaps that ’s start to deepen .
It ’s well worth reading the ease of Anders ’ military post , and now I ’m dying to read some of Roberts ’ novels . Plushis goofy Doctor Who parodies .
encounter Adam Roberts : the King of High Concept[Tor.com ]
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