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Chargement... Jack Glass : a golden age story (édition 2013)par Adam Roberts
Information sur l'oeuvreJack Glass : L'histoire d'un meurtrier par Adam Roberts
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Jack Glass, notorious criminal and murderer of millions is imprisoned on a asteroid with seven other criminals. The people who have sent him there for eleven years don't know he is there, but when they find out they will be back to get him. It is a cruel, sharp and brutish place, and he must use all his guile to escape from the un escapable place. On a small planet elsewhere, two sisters are experiencing a spell in gravity in a sealed orbital habitat owned by their hyper rich family. There are themselves, and few personal staff, and 20 or so servants. Normal life is interrupted following the murder of one of the servants, and one of the sisters, Diana, takes over the investigation from the police allocated to the investigation. as she progresses thing are not what they seem, and the murder is a prompt to discover some of the greater questions and threats to the family. I have read a couple of his before, the last one read I thought was not great at all so I wasn't looking forward to this much. I thought that it was an original story line, a bit gruesome and brutal at the beginning. I liked the way that the story unwrapped in layers, so you were never sure just what to expect next. The characters were interesting, Jack Glass in particular as he was innovative and single minded. I couldn't warm to the two sisters, they came across as arrogant, and self interested, but that may have been the idea. The worlds that he has created didn't come across as fully plausible, but the integrated tech did. Overall ok, not are I would read another by him just yet. An interesting concept, but the book wasn't that enjoyable. Plus some things are unbelievable, even in sci-fi Adam Roberts always raises the bar. 'Jack Glass' channels 'Golden Age' science fiction adventure and detective fiction. and does it with page turning verve. Diana Argent is addicted to solving murder mysteries. The best in the solar system. Jack Glass is a criminal mastermind. The best in the solar system. Their paths intersect, and on their interaction hangs the fate of humanity itself. Brilliant.
Jack Glass is a lightweight but enjoyable read, commendably different from anything else. Its strength lies in its lively writing. Appartient à la série éditorialeGallimard, Folio SF (671) Prix et récompensesDistinctions
WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 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 challanges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an extraordinary novel. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I found this to be an interesting story as it's somewhat different from a lot of what I read. I was horrified and intrigued by the first story but found the next two only mildly entertaining. Still, these are well worth reading. ( )