John Maddox Roberts
John Maddox Roberts is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels, including historical fiction, such as the SPQR series and Hannibal's Children.
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Personal life
John Maddox Roberts was born in Ohio and was raised in Texas, California, New Mexico.[1] He has lived in various places in the United States as well as in Scotland, England and Mexico.[2] He was kicked out of college in 1967 and joined the Army.[1] He was in the US Army 1967–70, and did a tour in Vietnam. After he returned, he became a Green Beret.[2]
He lives with his wife in Estancia, New Mexico.[3]
Career
Upon his return to civilian life, Roberts decided to be a writer and sold his first book to Doubleday in 1975;[1] his book was published in 1977 as The Strayed Sheep of Charum.[4] His earlier books were in the science fiction, fantasy and historical genres.[1]
In 1989, Roberts published his first historical mystery, The King's Gambit, set in ancient Rome. The book was nominated for the Edgar Award as best mystery of the year.[4] The book was first in Maddox's SPQR series of mysteries.[1]
Roberts also wrote a series of contemporary detective novels about a private eye named Gabe Treloar. The first book, A Typical American Town, is set in a fictionalized version of that Ohio town where he was born. The second, The Ghosts of Saigon, used his experiences in Vietnam. The third, Desperate Highways, is a road novel.[1]
When asked by TSR to do a Dragonlance mystery, he wrote Murder in Tarsis.[1] Roberts wrote an unpublished science fiction book called The Line, a police procedural set in a near-future Los Angeles where the biggest racket is illegal traffic in fetal pineal glands.[1]
Bibliography
Cingulum series
- The Cingulum (1985)
- Cloak of Illusion (1985)
- The Sword, The Jewel, and The Mirror (1988)
Island Worlds series
- Act of God (1985) (with Eric Kotani)
- The Island Worlds (1987) (with Eric Kotani)
- Between The Stars (1988) (with Eric Kotani)
- Delta Pavonis (1990) (with Eric Kotani)
Conan series
- Conan the Valorous (1985)
- Conan the Champion (1987)
- Conan the Marauder (1988)
- Conan the Bold (1989)
- Conan the Rogue (1991)
- Conan and the Manhunters (1994)
- Conan and the Treasure of Python (1994)
- Conan and the Amazon (1995)
Dragonlance series
- Murder in Tarsis (1996)
Falcon Series
An action series telling the story of a Crusader returning to Europe to seek vengeance on his father's killers (each written under the pen name of Mark Ramsay)
- The Falcon Strikes
- The Black Pope
- The Bloody Cross (1982)
- The King's Treasure (1983)
Gabe Treloar series
- A Typical American Town (1994)
- Ghosts of Saigon (1996)
- Desperate Highways (1997)
Space Angel series
- Space Angel (1979)
- Spacer: Window of the Mind (1988)
SPQR series
Mystery series set in Ancient Rome
- SPQR (1990) (also SPQR I: The King's Gambit)
- The Catiline Conspiracy (1991)
- The Sacrilege (1992)
- The Temple of the Muses (1999)
- Saturnalia (1999)
- Nobody Loves A Centurion (2001)
- The Tribune's Curse (2003)
- The River God's Vengeance (2004)
- The Princess and the Pirates (2005)
- A Point of Law (2006)
- Under Vesuvius (2007)
- Oracle of the Dead (December 9, 2008)
- The Year of Confusion (February 16, 2010)
Stormlands series
- The Islander (1990)
- The Black Shields (1991)
- The Poisoned Lands (1992)
- The Steel Kings (1993)
- Queens of Land and Sea (1994)
Hannibal series
- Hannibal's Children (2002)
- The Seven Hills (2005)
Individual novels
- The Strayed Sheep of Charun (1977), expanded into Cestus Dei (1983)
- King of the Wood (1983)
- The Enigma Variations (1989)
- Legacy of Prometheus (2000)
- Total Recall 2070: Machine Dreams (2000)
Short stories
- "Mightier Than the Sword" (1993, SPQR series), in the historical mystery anthology The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, edited by Mike Ashley [5]
- "The King of Sacrifices", (1993, SPQR series), in the historical mystery anthology The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, edited by Mike Ashley [6]
- "The Statuette of Rhodes" (1996, SPQR series), in the historical mystery anthology Classical Whodunits: Murder and Mystery from Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mike Ashley
- "The Mountain Wolves" (1996, not in series) in the anthology Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mike Ashley
- "The Etruscan House" (1998, SPQR series), in the historical mystery anthology Crime Through Time II, edited by Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharon Newman [7]
- "An Academic Question" (1998, SPQR series), in the historical mystery anthology Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, edited by Maxim Jakubowski
- "Venus in Pearls" (2001, SPQR series), in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July-August 2001 [8]
- "The Will" (2003, SPQR series), in the historical mystery anthology The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, edited by Mike Ashley
- "Beware the Snake" (2011, SPQR series), in the urban fantasy anthology Down These Strange Streets, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
References
- "John Maddox Roberts". Archived from the original on February 24, 2009.
- "John Maddox Roberts online Forum". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- retrieved August 31, 2010
- "Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park". www.swvamuseum.org.
- https://histmyst.org/anthologies.html
- https://histmyst.org/anthologies.html#themammothbookofhistoricaldetectives
- https://www.fictiondb.com/author/john-maddox-roberts~the-etruscan-house~308396~b.htm
- https://histmyst.org/short.html
