Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts is a professor of English literature at Royal Holloway University and a science fiction author. His latest book is Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014). He lives near London.

Written by Adam Roberts

A painting of a figure in historical clothing lying on a bed with eyes closed in a dimly lit room under a window, with scattered papers and an open chest.

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Mood and emotion

Why the long face?

Sadness makes us seem nobler, more elegant, more adult. Which is pretty weird, when you think about it

Adam Roberts

A donkey wearing a decorative blanket grazing in a dry, grassy field with distant rolling hills under an overcast sky.

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Philosophy of religion

The atheist paradox

Now that Christianity is the dominant religion on the planet, it is unbelievers who have most in common with Christ

Adam Roberts