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ebook, 373 pages Published: 2012 Edition: Gollancz eBook (2012) British Science Fiction Award Best Novel (2012) John W. Campbell Memorial for Best SF (2013) Winner Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author Kim Stanley Robinson thinks should have won the Booker. Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of Golden Age SF, Jack Glass is another bravura performance from Roberts. Whatever games he plays with the genre, whatever questions he asks of the reader, Roberts never loses sight of the need to entertain. Jack Glass has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping 'HowDunnits', and comes with liberal doses of sly humour. Roberts invites us to have fun and tricks us into thinking about both crime and SF via a beautifully structured novel set in a society the depiction o

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Author

Adam Roberts

Publisher

Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780575127630

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery