Rose/House
Rose/House
hardback
Published:
13 March, 2025
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A taut, uncanny sci-fi novella from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.
‘I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?’
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every load-bearing beam and fine marble tile with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else altogether. But now Deniau’s been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect’s will.
Dr. Selene Gisil, a former protégé, is the sole person permitted to come into Rose House once a year. Now, there is a dead person in Rose House. It is not Basit Deniau, and it is not Dr. Gisil. It is someone else. But Rose House won’t communicate any further.
No one can get inside Rose House, except Dr. Gisil. Dr. Gisil was not in North America when Rose House called in the death. But someone did. And someone died there.
And someone may be there still.
‘An exquisitely creepy exploration of the boundaries of life, death, the real and the artificial’ – Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time series
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781035065653 |
| ISBN10 | 1035065657 |
| Number Of Pages | 128 |
| Item Weight | 242 g |
| Product Dimensions | 144 x 225 x 15 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
An exquisitely creepy exploration of the boundaries of life, death, the real and the artificial -- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time series
Martine’s soaring, crystalline prose evokes Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if designed by Frank Gehry. She builds a twisted cathedral of story and fills every inch with equal parts beauty and a creeping, inescapable sense of wrongness. Readers will be floored -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
[The Haunting of Hill House is] a hard act to riff on without simply producing a lesser version, and yet Rose/House manages it dramatically and delightfully -- Reactor
Tight and unsettling . . . a story that’s stylish, discomforting and strangely believable . . . Rose/House is a freaky love letter to architecture, weird and otherwise -- Jake Casella Brookins * Locus *
While a mystery story raises questions in order to answer them and reset order in a disordered world, Rose/House deconstructs that process and reassembles the pieces into something other – or perhaps Other. The spirit that haunts this story is not that of the locked-room puzzle but something stranger and not at all reassuring -- Russell Letson * Locus *
A locked-room murder mystery that’s atmospheric, beautifully plotted and … conveys a vivid sense of what motivates its protagonists. * SFX Magazine *
Rose/House highlights all that is good in a novella … the language is precise and tight, with every sentence counting. * SFFWorld.com *
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Author's Bio
Arkady Martine (she/her) is the Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation of Peace. She is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She is currently a policy advisor for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, where she works on climate change mitigation, energy grid modernization and resiliency planning. Under both names, she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda and the edges of the world. Arkady grew up in New York City and, after some time in Turkey, Canada, and Sweden and Baltimore, lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw.