FICTION

Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

by Adam Roberts

Gollanz. 2013. 374p. ISBN 9780575127623. $24.95; pap. ISBN 9780575127647. $14.95. SF

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The tropes of Golden Age mysteries and sf are referenced in this British Science Fiction Award (BSFA) award winner for best novel. Jack Glass is a celebrated and infamous murderer whose crimes unfold across space in three connected stories. Jack's guilt is clearly established, but the stories are surprising "howdunits" raising universal questions.

VERDICT This is genre-bending, entertaining, slyly thought-provoking, occasionally bloody, and intellectually challenging space opera.

Reviewed by ALA Rusa-Codes , May 15, 2014

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