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*sings* Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home! With my arrows shootin Home, suitors executin Home, life reconstitutin Penelope for me

Great to talk with Casella of Ancillary Review of Books about Adam Roberts' The This for the Meal of Thorns podcast - shout out to The Big Read Cast who have also done excellent episodes on Roberts (and who I mention in this discussion). #sciencefiction ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/16/a-m…

Harold Bloom's experiences with Masud Khan were similar, if not as protracted as Godley's. medium.com/adams-notebook…

Translating Burgess/Burgess Translating. News of a funded PhD studentship at University of Manchester & the Anthony Burgess Foundation. The deadline for applications is 28 February. findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Once again, I am in awe (link to follow).

Yes, Adam Roberts: 'The Mirror and the Light' (2020) open.substack.com/pub/profadamro…

Locus "gifts for your Dad" suggestions. As a Dad myself, I approve. locusmag.com/2024/12/6-scie…

A most wonderful piece by my dear friend @martywendell (bonus: includes a mention of Adam Roberts on PKD): thebulwark.com/p/drone-hyster…

Merry Christmas, all. On my Substack I blog about one of Dickens's Christmas Novels that isn't "A Christmas Carol", and which you therefore haven't read: open.substack.com/pub/profadamro…

Mayor: You cast that statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Sculptor: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Mayor: what

"Ding dong merrily on high I am a police inspector: I will force you to recall The lives your family wrecked, here: Ti-i-i-i-iii-i-i-i-i-i-iiii-i-i-i-i-i -iiimeywimey Inspector will reveal all." Oh look. It's Priestley's AN INSPECTOR CARROLS

I review Cannadine's history of 19C Britain, "Victorious Century", and am not altogether positive: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/cannadines-v…

*sings* Nosferatu, Nosferatu, men have named you You're so like the baldy with the pointy teeth Is it merely you're vampire-y that they've blamed you For that Nosferatu strangeness underneath

The daffodils of the underworld. open.substack.com/pub/profadamro…

It's Kipling's birthday today, and at Poems Ancient and Modern, Adam Roberts looks at the underappreciated "Harp Song of the Dane Women." poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…

On David Lodge open.substack.com/pub/profadamro…

New substack: on Hell and worldbuilding. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/hellsdyke

Lynx hi-jinks jinxed, methinks.