4 books by Keith Roberts
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Overview: Keith Roberts was born in Northamptonshire in 1935, studied art, and worked as an illustrator on cartoon films and advertising visuals. He is now a freelance writer and agency visualizer, His shorter work and early stories have appeared in a variety of English and American magazines, notably Science Fantasy, of which he was Associate and then Managing Editor, and more recently in New Worlds. His novels include The Furies (1966), The Inner Wheel (1970), The Chalk Giants (1974), and the most famous of his works, Pavane (1968), which has been hailed as one of the major alternative histories of recent years. Both his collections of short stories and full-length science fiction novels have earned him a rapidly growing reputation as one of the foremost living British writers in this immensely popular genre.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Grain Kings
‘We reap and we thresh; grain for half the world. We are the Grain Kings raised of old.’ They call them the Grain Kings. Gigantic mechanical monarchs of the wheat-bearing plains that were once the frozen Alaskan wastes. Whole eco-systems in themselves, they can supply the food so desperately needed by the teeming millions of our overpopulated planet. But even now, as the whole world waits in hungry suspense, the great powers battle for control of the prairies and two competing combine harvesters find they are heading on a course of collision. A collision with catastrophic consequences – not only for the hundreds of crewmen aboard each massive machine but for the future survival of all mankind.
Kiteworld
The Realm of Kiteworld has survived nuclear catastrophe and is governed by a feudal and militant religious oligarchy – the Church Variant.
In the outer Badlands, real or imagined Demons are kept at bay by flying defensive structures of giant interlocking Cody kites piloted by an elite and brave Corps of Observers.
Through a series of Kite stories we are drawn compellingly into a strange but recognizable world where loyalty to the Corps is everything and non-conformity a sin. Keith Roberts depicts the fortunes, passions and failings of his characters against this background of a fragile and superstitious society. As the fanatical Ultras embark on a religious campaign of destruction, the Realm starts to disintegrate — fast.
Molly Zero
In an England two hundred years hence all children are brought up in single sex creches: the Blocks. Molly Zero, young and intelligent, resilient and loving, is a product of the Blocks and is destined for the Elite – the governing body of a country now crippled by martial law. When Molly rebels and escapes, she finds a new way of life in a small town, then with an eccentric band of travelling gypsies, and finally as a middle-class terrorist.
The Chalk Giants
It’s the eve of the 20th-century’s final conflict. But Stan Potts is ready for Armageddon. In his Austin Champ, specially equipped with his own unique survival kit, he heads for Corfe Castle, the Purbecks & the girl of his dreams. It’s to be an eventful journey. This latest & most ambitious novel by Keith Roberts is both the story of one lonely man & a compulsively readable account of a civilisation’s catastrophe & the clawing-up to a new social order. Across Potts’ gaze pass the ravaged survivors; the mutant genius born outside his time; the villagers of the new stone age with their credulous, sexually complex lives; the iron age horsemen; the terror of the sea-borne marauders. Finally, after the pillage, the cruelty of superstition, the fragility of love & its horrific consequences, the story leaps from the Dark Ages into a new awareness & Stan Potts’ tale is told. Dream or reality? Future or racial memory? Forecast or myth?
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