Rose/House
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Publishing:8th Jan '26
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 8th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A taut, uncanny sci-fi thrillerfrom Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning authorof A Memory Called Empire.
‘Exquisitely creepy’
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time series
‘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 ordered by the architect’s will.
Dr Selene Gisil, a former protégé, is the sole person permitted, once a year, to enter Rose House. But now, there is a dead person inside. It is not Basit Deniau, and it is not Dr Gisil. It is someone else. And Rose House won’t communicate any further.
No one but Dr Gisil can get inside Rose House. 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.
‘A sharp, clever blend of science fictional gothic and crime’
The Guardian
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
A sharp, clever blend of science fictional gothic and crime -- The Guardian
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
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 *
[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
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 *
All-round brilliant space opera, I absolutely loved it -- Ann Leckie, author of Translation State on A Memory Called Empire
ISBN: 9781035065677
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
128 pages