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Keith Roberts

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born

September 20, 1935 in Northamptonshire, The United Kingdom

died

October 05, 2000

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Used These Alternate Names: Alistair Bevan , John Kingston , David Stringer

Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 – 5 October 2000), was a British science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of Science Fantasy magazine, "Anita" (the first of a series of stories featuring a teenage modern witch and her eccentric granny) and "Escapism.

Several of his early stories were written using the pseudonym Alistair Bevan. His second novel, Pavane, which is really a collection of linked stories, may be his most famous work: an alternate history novel in which the Roman Catholic Church takes control of England following the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Books by Keith Roberts

Average rating: 3.67 · 800 ratings · 100 reviews · 70 distinct works

	Pavane 3.63 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 1966 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Kiteworld 3.46 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Furies 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Anita 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Molly Zero 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Chalk Giants 3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1974 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Degas: Colour Library 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Bruegel: Colour Library 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Grain Kings 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Boat of Fate: An Historical Novel 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Keith Roberts

“Becky walked to the sea late in the day, trod barefoot among the tumbled blocks of stone that lined the foreshore, smelling the old harsh smell of salt, hearing the water slap and chuckle while from high above came the endless sinister trickling of the cliffs. Into her consciousness stole, maybe for the first time, the sense of loneliness; an oppression born of the gentle miles of summer water, the tall blackness of the headlands, the fingers of the stone ledges pushing out into the sea.”
― Keith Roberts, Pavane

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JUNE SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which 2 books move on to the run-off poll for the June SF Book of the Month

In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker

27 votes, 29.0%

Armor by John Steakley

17 votes, 18.3%

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

14 votes, 15.1%

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

13 votes, 14.0%

Pavane by Keith Roberts

12 votes, 12.9%

The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter

6 votes, 6.5%

State of Decay by James Knapp

4 votes, 4.3%

93 total votes

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