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Adam Roberts
Five Speculative Visions of Britain in Chaos
Here Are the 2020 BSFA Award Winners
Adam Roberts on His New Novella The Compelled
British Fiction Focus
Dial H for Hitchcock: Revealing The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
Applied Kant: The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
Midnight in Karachi Podcast
Midnight in Karachi, Episode 4: Adam Roberts
British Fiction Focus
Swiftly Does It
Eternal Treblinka of the Spotless Soul: Bête by Adam Roberts
A Cosmos of Water: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea by Adam Roberts
British Fiction Focus
How You Ruined the Hugos
The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe
The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Adam Roberts
British Fiction Focus
Let the Con Commence!
The Riddles of The Hobbit (Excerpt)
Non-Fiction || Riddles have lost none of their power over us: we are as fascinated by mysteries, from sudoko to whodunnits, from jokes to philosophical conundrums. The Hobbit is a book threaded through with riddles; most obviously in its central "Riddles in the Dark" chapter, but everywhere else too—what does "Good Morning" mean? What is a burrahobbit? How many versions of the Hobbit are there? What is the buried secret in the nine riddles Bilbo and Gollum swap between one another? What are Ents? Dragons? Wizards? What is the magic of the magic ring?