Roberts, Ralph
Entry updated 16 December 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1945-2021) US author and publisher who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Sailor's Delight" in Asimov's for May 1980; his short fiction appeared in various magazines and anthologies to 2018. His one novel is The Hundred-Acre Spaceship (2002), a comedy that spoofs Cold War tensions and antipathies. The Invention by a young genius of "disruptor field technology", a Spaceship Power Source whose spinoffs include a handgun Weapon that can shoot all the way through the Earth, leads to international shenanigans; an entire hundred-acre US estate is launched Spindizzy-fashion into space and a comic Space-Opera battle ensues.
Roberts's Small Press Farthest Star was active from 1995 to 2012, publishing inter alia his own novel and several titles by Mike Resnick. [DRL]
Ralph Roberts
born Asheville, North Carolina: 11 December 1945
died 24 June 2021
works
- The Hundred-Acre Spaceship (Alexander, North Carolina: Farthest Star, 2003) [introduction by Mike Resnick: hb/Ralph Roberts]
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