Keith Roberts (1935-2000)

9 Novels (4 m), 9 Collections (3 tightly linked), 1 Autobiography

Non SF&F Novels

The Boat of Fate (1971)
The Road to Paradise (1988)

SF&F Novels

The Furies (1966)
Pavane (1968)
The Inner Wheel (1970)
Molly Zero (1980)
Kiteworld (1985)
Gráinne (1987)
Drek Yarman (Kiteworld #2) Serialised in Spectrum SF in 2000: #1 Feb, #2 Apr, #3 Jul

NB Early versions of Pavane do not include the story The White Boat, which appears in The Grain Kings, and The Passing of the Dragons.

Collections

Anita (1970)15/16Ace Books, pb, 1970; Millington, hc, 1976; Owlswick Press, hc, 1990; Gateway / Orion, eb, 2013
Machines and Men (1973)10Hutchinson, hc, 1973; Panther, pb, 1974; Gateway / Orion, eb, 2011
The Chalk Giants ()19747Hutchinson, hc, 1974; Putnam's, hc, 1975; Panther, pb, 1975; Berkley, 1976; Wildside Press, tp+hc, 2000; Gateway / Orion, eb, 2011; Gollancz / Orion, tp+eb, 2011
The Grain Kings (1976)7
The Passing of the Dragons (1977)12
Ladies from Hell (1979)5
The Lordly Ones (1986)7
Kaeti & Company (1986)10Kerosina Books, trade hc + ltd hc 200, 1986; Wildside Press, tp, 2000; Gateway, eb, 2013
A Heron Caught in Weeds [Poetry] (1987)28
Winterwood and Other Hauntings (1989)7/8
Kaeti on Tour (1992)9/11Sirius Book Company, trade hc + ltd hc 150, 1992; Wildside Press, tp, 2000; Gateway / Orion, eb, 2012

Chapbooks

Kaeti's Apocalypse (1986) Available only with the collectors' edition of Kaeti and Company (Kerosina Books)
The Event (1989)Morrigan, tp, ltd edition of 300, unsigned

Nonfiction

The Natural History of the P.H. (1988)Kerosina, hc & pb, ltd ed; an essay on the Primitive Heroine in literature
Irish Encounters (1988)Kerosina, ltd hc & tp, 1988; Booklet of essays about a trip to Ireland in 1978
Lemady: Episodes of a Writer's Life (1997)Borgo Press, 1997, tp; Wildside Press, hc & tp, 1997

Short Fiction

Title1st PubAMaMTCGTGKTPotDLfHTLOKaCWaOHKoT
The Madman (1964) (AB)Science Fantasy, Dec 1964 & Jan 1965
Escapism (1964)Science Fantasy, Sep-Oct 1964MaM
The Charm (1964)Science Fantasy, Dec 1964 & JanA
Anita (1964)Science Fantasy, Sep-Oct 1964A
Acclimatization (1965) (DS)New Writings in S-F 5, 1965
Boulter's Canaries (1965)New Writings in S-F 3, 1965MaMTPotD
Deterrent (1965) (AB)Science Fantasy, Jun 1965
High Eight (1965) (DS)New Writings in S-F 4, 1965
Manipulation (1965) (JK)New Writings in S-F 3, 1965MaM
Sub-Lim (1965)New Writings in S-F 4, 1965MaM
Susan (1965) (AB)Science Fantasy, April 1965 WaOH
The Door (1965) (AB)Science Fantasy, Jul 1965
The Typewriter (1965) (AB)Science Fantasy, Jan-Feb 1965
Flight of Fancy (1965)Science Fantasy, Jan-Feb 1965
The Flowers of the Valley (1965)New Worlds SF, Apr 1965
The Jennifer (1965)Science Fantasy, Mar 1965A
The War at Foxhanger (1965)Science Fantasy, Apr 1965A
Idiot's Lantern (1965)Science Fantasy, Aug 1965A
Breakdown (1966) (AB)SF Impulse, Oct 1966MaM
Manscarer (1966)New Writings in S-F 7, 1966MaMTPotD
Synth (1966)New Writings in S-F 8, 1966MaMTPotD
The Deeps (1966)Orbit 1, 1966MaMTPotD
The Scarlet Lady (1966) (AB)SF Impulse, Aug 1966WaOH
Survey of the Third Planet (1966)F&SF, Jan 1966
The Pace That Kills (1966) (AB)Impulse, May 1966MaM
The Worlds That Were (1966)Worlds of Tomorrow, May 1966
The Simple for Love (1966)SF Impulse, Nov 1966A
The White Boat (1966)New Worlds, Dec 1966TGKTPotD
The Familiar (1966)SF Impulse, Dec 1966A
The Middle Earth (1966)Science Fantasy, May 1965A
Timothy (1966)SF Impulse, Sep 1966A
The Eastern Windows (1967)The Devil His Due, 1967WaOH
Coranda (1967)New Worlds, Jan 1967TPotD
Therapy 2000 (1969)New Writings in S-F 15, 1969MaMTPotD
Outpatient (1970)Anita, 1970A
Cousin Ella Mae (1970)Anita, 1970A
Sandpiper (1970)Anita, 1970A
Junior Partner (1970)F&SF, Dec 1970A
The Mayday (1970)F&SF, Nov 1970A
The Witch (1971)Anita, 1970A
The God House (1971)New Worlds Quarterly, 1971TCG
The Wreck of the "Kissing Bitch" (1971)Warlocks and Warriors, 1971; F&SF, Dec 1971
Monkey and Pru and Sal (1971)New Worlds Quarterly 2, 1971TCG
I Lose Medea (1972) (AB)New Worlds Quarterly 3, 1972TGKTPotd
The Grain Kings (1972)New Worlds Quarterly 3, 1972TGKTPotD
The Passing of the Dragons (1972)New Writings in SF (21), 1972TGKTPotd
Weihnachtabend (1972)New Worlds Quarterly #4, 1972TGKTPotD
Everything in the Garden (1973)Argosy, Apr 1973WaOH
The Beautiful One (1973)New Worlds 6, 1973TCG
The Lake of Tuonela (1973)New Writings in SF 23, 1973TPotD
The Snake Princess (1973)The Cornhill Magazine, Summer 1973WaOH
Fragments (1974)The Chalk Giants, 1974TCG
Rand, Rat and the Dancing Man (1974)The Chalk Giants, 1974TCG
The Sun Over a Low Hill (1974)The Chalk Giants, 1974TCG
Usk the Jokeman (1974)The Chalk Giants, 1974TCG
Winterwood (1974)The Cornhill Magazine, Spring 1974WaOH
The Ministry of Children (1975)New Worlds 9, 1975LfH
Missa Privata (1976)New Worlds 10, 1976LfH
The Helmet-Maker's Wife (1977)Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, Volume Two, 1977
The Big Fans (1977)F&SF, May 1977LfH
The Shack at Great Cross Halt (1977)New Writings in SF 30, 1978LfH
Molly Zero (1977) $Triax, 1977
Ariadne Potts (1978)F&SF, Apr 1978TLO
Our Lady of Desperation (1979)Ladies from Hell, 1979LfH
The Comfort Station (1980)F&SF, May 1980TLO
The Lordly Ones (1980)F&SF, Mar 1980TLO
The Checkout (1981)F&SF, Feb 1981ATLO
Kaeti's Nights (1981)F&SF, Oct 1981KaC
Sphairistike (1984)F&SF, Feb 1984TLO
The Silence of the Land (1984)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Richenda (1985)F&SF, Sep 1985
The Inn at the World's End (1986)Heroic Visions II, 1986
Diva (1986)Goldmann Fantasy Foliant III, 1985TLO
The Castle on the Hoop (1986)The Lordly Ones, 1986TLO
Tremasrest (1986) (Kiteworld)Amazing Stories, Nov 1986
Kaeti and the Potman(1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Kaeti and the Sky Person(1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Kaeti and the Building(1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Kaeti and the Tree (1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Kaeti and the Hangman (1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
The Clocktower Girl (1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Kaeti and the Zep (1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
The Dream Machine (1986)Kaeti & Company, 1986KaC
Kaeti's Apocalypse (1986) *Kaeti's Apocalypse, 1986KaC
Piper's Wait (1987)Other Edens, 1987KoT
Equivalent for Giles (1987)Tales from the Forbidden Planet, 1987KoT
The Grey Wethers (1989)Other Edens III, 1989KoT
Mrs. Cibber (1989)Winterwood and Other Hauntings 1989WaOH
The Event (1989)Winterwood and Other Hauntings 1989WaOH
Measured Perspective (1990)Digital Dreams, 1990KoT
Mrs. Byres and the Dragon (1990)Asimov's, Aug 1990KoT
The Will of God (1991)Asimov's, Jul 1991KoT
Kaeti and the Shadows (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
The Tiger Sweater (1992)F&SF, October 1987KoT
Kaeti and the Village (1992)Weird Tales, Winter 1988/1989KoT
Turndown (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
Kaeti and the Airfield (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
The Green Place (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
The Aquatint (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
The Bridge of Dreams (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
Londinium (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
The Hut on Fowl's Legs (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
The Trouble Dolls (1992)Kaeti on Tour, 1992KoT
Unlikely Meeting (1994) Interzone, Oct 1994
Virtual Reality (2000) Spectrum SF, #4 Nov 2000
Totals161075125811811

* - separate pamphlet, # - subsequently included in Pavane, $ - novella version

Some early stories published as by Alistair Bevan (AB), David Stringer (DS), John Kingston (JK)

Poetry

Title1st PubAHCiW
A Civic Problem Observed (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A Downland Haunting (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A L'enfant Sauvage (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A Language Tutor (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A Marine Engineer (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A Para (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A Technical Author (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
A Wykehamist (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
At Hellfire Corner (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Ave Atque Vale (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Behind the Organ Case (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Calais Encounter (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
De Produndis, Pro Temporis (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Envoi (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Friday, June 4th: Henley, 1982 (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Ghost at the Rose (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Gráinne (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Hill 60 (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Home Thoughts from a Coach (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Sanctuary Wood (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Sham Hill (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Spanbroekmolen (The Messines Mines) (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
The Iron Child (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
The Last Resort (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
The Raising of the Mary Rose (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Tyne Cot (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Verulam (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Ypres, 1980 (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987AHCiW
Lamentation (2020)Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2020

Essays/Articles

Letter (1966)SF Impulse, November 1966
Book Fare (1967)SF Impulse, Feb 1967
Editorial (1967)SF Impulse, February 1967
Keith Roberts re-reads the "True History" of Lucian of Samosatos (1967)SF Impulse, Feb 1967
Fiddlesticks to Widdershins (1967)Australian Science Fiction Review, #9, Apr 1967
Letter (1975)Foundation #9 Nov 1975
Sex and Taboos (introduction) (1977)The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 1977
Introduction (Ladies from Hell) (1979)Ladies from Hell, 1979
Tongue-Twisting as a Sport (1980)Foundation, #19 June 1980
Introduction (Keith Roberts) (1983)Keith Roberts, 1983
Kaeti and Kerosina (1986)Vector 132 1986-06
The Chalk Giant (1986)Vector 132 1986-06
Introduction (A Heron Caught in Weeds) (1987)A Heron Caught in Weeds, 1987
Breakthrough (1987)Frontier Crossings, 1987
The Great Celtic Submarine (1987)Frontier Crossings, 1987
The Nominees for the 1988 Nebula Awards (1988) with Greg Bear and David Brin
and Octavia E. Butler and Pat Cadigan and Avram Davidson and Paul Di Filippo
and George Alec Effinger and John M. Ford and Lisa Goldstein and Ursula K. Le
Guin and Bruce McAllister and Pat Murphy and Kim Stanley Robinson and Geoff
Ryman and Susan Shwartz and Robert Silverberg and Bruce Sterling and Lawrence
Watt-Evans and Kate Wilhelm and Walter Jon Williams and Connie Willis and Gene
Wolfe
The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Spring 1988
A Castle of the Pale (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
A Present from Long Kesh (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
A Pub and a Fort (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
Baile Atha Cliath (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
Home Thoughts from a Trident (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
Interlude: The Crystal Cave (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
Leinster of the Legends (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
More Fragments (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
The Clock of the Ages (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
The Imprisoned Tree (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
To Begin at the Beginning... (1988)Irish Encounters, 1988
Introduction (Homunculus) (1988)Homunculus, 1988
Anita: An Introduction (1990)Anita, 1990

Interviewed

Rencontre avec Keith Roberts [French] (1973) by Jacques GuiodGalaxie (2čme série), #108, 1973-05
Of Men and Machines (1982) by Paul KincaidVector 108, 1982-06
Keith Robert (1983) by Charles PlattDream Makers, Volume II: The Uncommon Men & Women Who Write Science Fiction, 1983
A Mosaic of Words (Mexicon II, February 1986) (1986) by Paul KincaidVector 132, 1986-06
Keith Roberts: No Free Tea (1986) by Mike MoirLocus, #308 Sep 1986

Obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/16/guardianobituaries.books