The title of the first major collection of short stories by the academic, critic and satirist Adam Roberts tells us almost everything we need to know about Adam Robots.
It’s a joke, of course: a suggestive enmeshing of two created creatures delivered with a wink and a nod, if not a jarring slap across the back. “Adam” is either Adam Roberts the author, or Adam the first man—according to Christian theology, obviously—whilst “Robots” refers to the thinking things which feature in many of Roberts’ shorts; most notably the titular tale, which happens to take place in a reconfigured Eden, and revolve around its own forbidden fruit.
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