Splinter is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts, published in 2007.

It is based on an earlier story by the author, "Hector Servadac, fils", which was part of The Mammoth Book of Jules Verne Adventures.

As in Verne's novel, the main character is Hector Servadac, however, instead of being stranded on the comet while serving in the French Algerian army, his father is a supporter of a doomsday cult and Servadac is stranded on a splinter of the shattered Earth when the planet is destroyed by a comet.

Roberts described the central metaphor as "the trope that the world might end and that we might not even be sure it has happened.

"[1] In the SF Encyclopedia, John Clute described Splinter as an "enjoyable homage to and gloss upon the Verne novel.