By Adam Roberts
London: Gollancz, (2012).
First edition, first printing.
Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"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 whose depiction
challanges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an
extraordinary novel."--Fantastic Fiction.
Winner of the BSFA and Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel.
A scarce SF novel in collectible condition.
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