Jack Glass

Hardcover | 1 April 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime in this British Science Fiction Award winner for best novel, from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue Tibia.

Jack Glass is the murderer-we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel unfolds, readers will be astonished to discover how he committed the murders and by the end of the book, their sympathies for the killer will be 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, this 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.

Filled with wonderfully gruesome moments and liberal doses of sly humour, this novel is built around three gripping HowDunnits that challenge notions of crime, punishment, power, and freedom.

Industry Reviews

'The absurdly talented Adam Roberts is...hauling British science fiction into a bright future of sparkling sentences and densely ironic conceits. Jack Glass is a dazzling trio of locked-room murder mysteries set in a brittle future autarchy, drawing heavily on golden-age SF but even more from the English detective stories of Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh.' The Daily Telegraph

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