Adam Roberts is, in my considered opinion, the coolest fucking guy. He’s a science fiction writer, a literary critic, a parodist, a university professor, the editor of the most up-to-date scholarly edition of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, a translator, a biographer, an obsessive punster, and, in all my interactions with him, a really pleasant and helpful guy. I’ve written about him before, in this newsletter, in my