3-540: Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 – 5 October 2000) was an English 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 pseudonyms Alistair Bevan and David Stringer. His second novel Pavane , first published in 1968, which
6-489: Is a collection of linked stories, may be his most famous work: an alternate history novel in which the Catholic Church takes control of England following the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I . Roberts wrote numerous novels and short stories and worked as an illustrator. His artistic contributions include covers and interior artwork for New Worlds and Science Fantasy , later renamed Impulse . He also edited
9-733: The last few issues of Impulse although the nominal editor was Harry Harrison . Roberts' first novel, The Furies , makes an appearance in the American TV series Bones in the third season's third episode "Death in the Saddle" (9 October 2007). Roberts described himself as a political conservative and an anti-communist . In later life, Roberts lived in Salisbury . He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990, and died of its complications in October 2000. Obituaries recalled him as
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