Adam Roberts is a writer, critic and scholar. He is the author of 12 science fiction novels and stories, which have been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke award, The British Science Fiction Association award, the John W. Campbell award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle, and he has written for The Guardian and The Times. Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, he has also published a rang of scholarly works such as The History of Science Fiction (2016), The Riddles of the Hobbit (2013) and Fantasy: A Short History (Bloomsbury, 2025).