Jack Glass : a Golden Age story
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Published
London : Gollancz, 2012.
ISBN
9780575127623 (hbk), 0575127627 (hbk)
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy (3rd floor)
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Published
London : Gollancz, 2012.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780575127623 (hbk), 0575127627 (hbk)

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"The story of a murderer"--Cover.
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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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Roberts, A. (2012). Jack Glass: a Golden Age story . Gollancz.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Roberts, Adam. 2012. Jack Glass: A Golden Age Story. Gollancz.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Roberts, Adam. Jack Glass: A Golden Age Story Gollancz, 2012.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Roberts, Adam. Jack Glass: A Golden Age Story Gollancz, 2012.

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