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Review of The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts


Adam Roberts, “The Thing Itself” – a Review - Crooked Timber

It's a serious novel, in the paranormal-meets-procedural line. Something weird is loose in our universe. Official police and government response is inadequate.

Adam Roberts, The Thing Itself | Recurring Bafflement

Adam Roberts's The Thing Itself is philosophical speculative fiction riffing on Kant's idea of the ding an sich, or thing in itself.

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts review – a dazzling philosophical ...

A killer nerd's dangerous pursuit of the ultimate truth offers a mystical reading of Kant. Julian Baggini

The Thing Itself | a Review - Maudlin House

Put most simply, it is an exploration of a classic Kantian idea through a science fiction parable. Immanuel Kant, the giant of Western ...

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts | Goodreads

Charles leads a sad sack life, unable to move beyond his Antarctic trauma. A mysterious group called the Institute asks for his help in ...

Review of 'The Thing Itself' by Adam Roberts - Andrew Wallace

I was drawn to this book by its association with John Carpenter's The Thing, whose alien is a uniquely visceral nightmare.

Started reading "The thing itself" - Robert Adams.. didn't realize it ...

It's Adam Roberts, not Robert Adams lol. I always get his name confused too. I've read his 'Salt' and 'Stone' which are great sci-fi works ...

Review: The Thing Itself, by Adam Roberts - Andrew R. Cameron

Roberts has always been quick to engage in philosophy, but this is the first time that a metaphysical concept has formed the premise of his ...

The Thing Itself / Adam Roberts - SFF180

In The Thing Itself, Roberts catches Kant's central ideas and runs them all the way down the field. The story involves the development of an AI to test Kant's ...

Questions about Robert Adam's "The Thing Itself" : r/printSF - Reddit

So that to me is what makes the book interesting, putting the horror in as "real" a context as possible. I think it was just supposed to be a ...

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts | For winter nights - A bookish blog

The Thing Itself | Adam Roberts | 2015, Pb 2016 | Gollancz | 358p | Review copy | Buy the book Charles Gardner and Roy Curtius are two ...

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts By Kevin Power - Strange Horizons

Across a virtuoso range of tonalities and venues, Roberts traces the consequences of his "what if?"—what if Kant were right? What if "the thing ...

Review of The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts - Speculiction...

Roberts amalgamates philosophy, suspense, the isolation of Antarctica, and a minor character study in a truly compelling story.

Applied Kant: The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts - Reactor

In addition to an articulation of artificial intelligence approaching Kim Stanley Robinson's in Aurora, Roberts' works his way through a swathe ...

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts - Goodreads

Read 271 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustroph…

The Thing Itself: Amazon.co.uk: Roberts, Adam: 9780575127722

Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing.

Book review of The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts - SFBook

It begins on an Antarctic research base that is manned by two scientists. Charles Gardner is practical, easy-going, friendly even, while Roy ...

Review of The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts

The novel, true to its roots in speculative science fiction, takes a point of philosophical debate and extends it further. In this case the speculation of ...

The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts - theforgottengeek

You're left reflecting on the book long after you've finished. Roberts is one of the best contemporary writers of original science fiction in ...

Adam Robert's The Thing Itself: A Book Review in Four Antinomies

The novel's central narrative follows Charles Gardner, an involuntarily retired astrophysicist who suffered permanent disfigurement after a ...