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Jack Glass
- Author
- Adam Roberts
- Narrator
- Elliot Chapman
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 31 December 2017
- Run Time
- 13 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
What to expect
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 and 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 challenges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an extraordinary novel.
(p) Orin Publishing Group with Audible 2017
Critics Review
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A smart and ingenius writer
Christopher Priest
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Clever, inventive and above all a fantastic read
SF Book
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Perfectly plotted, winningly worded, and as rewarding, despite everything, as anything you're apt to read this year, this trifecta of golden age goodness is yet another example of Adam Roberts' tremendous talents
Tor.com
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Details
- Author
- Adam Roberts
- Narrator
- Elliot Chapman
- Duration
- 13 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 December 2017
- ISBN
- 9781409179184
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVELJack 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 and 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 challenges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an extraordinary novel.(p) Orin Publishing Group with Audible 2017
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