The Resource Jack Glass : a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts
Jack Glass : a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts
- Summary
- Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue Tibia?an innovative literary voice working at the height of his powers 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, 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. This novel has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping HowDunnits, and comes with liberal doses of sly humor. 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 whose depiction challenges notions of crime, punishment, power, and freedom
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 371 p.
- Note
- "The story of a murderer"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9780575127630
- Label
- Jack Glass : a Golden Age story
- Title
- Jack Glass
- Title remainder
- a Golden Age story
- Statement of responsibility
- Adam Roberts
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue Tibia?an innovative literary voice working at the height of his powers 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, 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. This novel has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping HowDunnits, and comes with liberal doses of sly humor. 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 whose depiction challenges notions of crime, punishment, power, and freedom
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- Title
- Jack Glass
- Summary
- Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime from the author Kim Stanley Robinson thinks should have won the Booker
- Award
-
- John W. Campbell Award, 2013.
- BSFA Award for Best Novel
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10182809
- Cataloging source
- BT
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6118.O23
- LC item number
- J33 2012
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- Adam Roberts
- Label
- Jack Glass : a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts
- Note
- "The story of a murderer"--Cover
- Control code
- ocn805288667
- http://library.link/vocab/cover_art
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- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- http://library.link/vocab/discovery_link
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- Extent
- 371 p.
- Isbn
- 9780575127630
- Isbn Type
- (export trade pbk.)
Subject
- Murderers -- Fiction.
- Penal colonies -- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Space and time -- Fiction.
- Clans
- Heirs and heiresses
- Interpersonal relations
- Locked room mysteries
- Murder
- Murderers
- Prisons
- Science fiction
- Science fiction mysteries
- Teachers
- Technology -- Social aspects
- Violent crimes
- Weapons
Genre
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Awards
Awards of Jack Glass : a Golden Age story, Adam Roberts- Award
- John W. Campbell Award, 2013.
- Award
- BSFA Award for Best Novel
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