In the SF Encyclopedia, John Clute described Splinter as an 'enjoyable homage to and gloss upon the Verne novel. A tall terrace of Victorian residential housing ran almost the whole length of it, and I picked my way rather quickly. He is the author of numerous novels and literary parodies. I made my way up the Common’s south side, heading north towards Clapham High Street. There would be a lengthy transition period during which we would become increasingly convinced that something substantial had changed in our lives.' Reception Adam Roberts is commonly described as one of the UKs most important writers of SF. We surely wouldn't be wholly oblivious (this is the end of the world we're talking about, after all!) But we might not be wholly certain, either.

But those 150,000 need help, they need support, they need organising, governing. Roberts described the central metaphor as 'the trope that the world might end and that we might not even be sure it has happened. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. The hardcover edition of the novel is included in a slipcase with a hardcover edition of Off on a Comet.Īs in Verne's novel, the main character is Hector Servadac, however, instead of being stranded on the comet while serving in the French Algerian army, his father is a supporter of a doomsday cult and Servadac is stranded on a splinter of the shattered Earth when the planet is destroyed by a comet. It is a reworking of Off on a Comet, an 1877 novel by Jules Verne.

It is based on an earlier story by the author, 'Hector Servadac, fils', which was part of The Mammoth Book of Jules Verne Adventures. Splinter, published in 2007, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts.

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