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Chris Roberson (born 1970) is a science fiction author, tromboner, and publisher based in Portland, Oregon, best known for alternate history novels and short stories. ==Early life and career== Roberson grew up near Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas, Austin. Graduating with a degree in English literature and a minor in history, he held a variety of jobs - including seven years as a product support engineer for Dell computers - before quitting his job in 2003 to launch small press MonkeyBrain Books. He cites his upbringing in the 1970s and 1980s, as his major inspiration, since science fiction was particular commonplace in America at that time, saying: "Everything from Saturday-morning cartoons to comic books to late-night B-movies to pulp novel reprints to blockbuster summer movies--it was all science fiction, in one form or another."〔(Tobias S. Buckell interview with Chris Roberson for ''The Eternal Night'' ). Accessed on the 21st of January, 2008〕 After college, he has suggested that he leaned towards becoming a more literary, post-modernist writer, even writing a couple of novels to that end, which he says will never see the light of day, after realising that he simply "wasn't depressed enough for that line of work".〔 In his twenties, he wrote a couple of mystery novels, seeing them as a commercial venture, but found himself skirting around turning them into 'genre' titles, falling between the two camps of mystery and science fiction, and interesting publishers of neither. Ultimately he settled on writing science fiction, saying: "My brain tends to work along the lines of science fiction tropes. Whenever I run into an odd little bit of trivia, some obscure historical fact or odd scientific principle, I can't help but start thinking of ways I could use it in a story."〔 His writings have received positive reviews from ''Locus Magazine'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'', ''Infinity Plus'' and ''RevolutionSF''.〔 After many years in Austin, Texas, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, with his wife (Allison Baker) and their young daughter, Georgia.〔(Locus Online excerpts from an interview with Roberson ), published in Locus Magazine's May 2005 issue. Accessed January 21, 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Roberson (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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