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Adam C. Roberts | 384 pages | 09 May 2013 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575127647 | English | London, United Kingdom Jack GLASS Obituary - Marietta, Georgia |

Apr 06, nostalgebraist rated it liked it Shelves: sf , space-opera. It shares a number of qualities with those two books: division into several interlinked but tonally dissimilar sections, cold and not conventionally likable characters who nonetheless grow on the reader, flashy science fiction concepts that don't dominate the story the way one might expect them to, incessant reminders of extreme economic inequality, strange pacing with lurches and changes of focus, etc. I would rank it above Swiftly but below By Light Alone, for the simple reason that it lacks By Light Alone's artistry of characterization, prose and satire. After finishing BLA, I felt like I had just read the perfect science fiction novel to recommend to people who were wary of the genre -- a novel that did all the ordinary things right and did them in a skillfully utilized science fictional context. Jack Glass is not in the same category. It eschews many of the "ordinary things" we expect of non-genre novels and replaces them with plot -- lots and lots of intricate, clever plot. Jack Glass is made up of three linked murder mysteries, each of which simultaneously qualifies as each of three distinct classic types of murder mystery "prison story," "locked-room mystery," and "whodunit" , and the overarching plot deftly wends its way through all of this genre structure. Oh, and in every case we already know who the murderer is, and yet Roberts sets thing up so that we're surprised when we learn how he did it, and why. And the afore-known murderer -- the titular Jack Glass -- is also one of the main characters of the overarching plot. It's all very clever and put together with evident delight, and it's fun to watch the whole machine work. And since this is Roberts the writing is good -- or it's better, anyway, than you'd tend to expect from such a plot-heavy book. But that's as far as it goes: better than you'd expect. Not just-plain-good in the way BLA was just-plain-good. Not Roberts' best, but a lot of fun. Jul 01, TheBookSmugglers rated it really liked it. Jack Glass is an impossible book. Jack Glass is ostensibly a blend of Golden Age Science Fiction and Golden Age Crime — to which point this is a homage or subversion is up for discussion. Set in the far future — humanity has travelled extensively in the Solar System and spread out as far as it can go. Those who are really lucky end up working for the Clans and Corporations who run everything. The story is divided in three interlinked parts: a prison story, a whodunit and a locked-room mystery. Jack Glass is the murderer: we know this from the get go. In the meantime: FTL! Faster Than Light travel — an impossibility according to the Law of Physics. Something that is both the epitome of Hope imagine being able to travel even further afield, away from this horrendous reality and start anew! Their survival depends on them working together to make the asteroid habitable which is both about their survival and the point of their sentence: they are given the necessary tools to extend the one room they dumped in an advanced substance locks them in and allows them some air , create new chambers, grow food after they dig and find ice. At the end of these 11 years, they go free, the corporation that dropped them there resells the now inhabitable asteroid, everybody wins. If they can make those 11 years, that is. Because humans being humans, as soon as they are left there, a power hierarchy is established between the 7 individuals. The other is a legless man in a universe where most inhabitable places are gravity-free, why would anyone even need legs? Needless to say: the prison story is also a locked-room mystery and to some extent a whodunit. We know something really bad is going to happen and we know that Jack Glass will do it because we have been told so. It is a case of sitting down and abiding time to see how exactly things will play out. This first part is perfectly horrible and suffocating in its unstopping violence. Was so good! The obvious claustrophobic environment expertly replicated in the writing itself. But Jac needs to get away before the people who put him there realise who he really is. In the end Jack does what Jack does best the greatest criminal of all time, the biggest murderer the world has ever seen and manages the impossible. They are the future of Clan Argent, genetically engineered to be master problem- solvers. Not that she has had any chance to actually be sympathetic so far as her privilege is so deeply ingrained. The sisters are surrounded by their bodyguards, their servants and their tutor Iago all of whom receive hormone injections that hinder their sense of individuality and amplify their love for their employers. Which is why when one the servants is mauled to death in a locked-room no less no suspicion is raised about the safety of the two sisters. Instead, this becomes the perfect opportunity for Dia to apply her knowledge to a Real Murder. It is painfully obvious to surmise who Jack Glass is in this scenario. But then again the WHO has never been the point. Things are not as simple as they look and the WHYdunit of this case is quite possibly the most important thing about Jack Glass. Whodunit, Locked-Room, Prison Escape yes, this too. The second part is all three at once as well. But here is where things reach their climax, overall character arcs are revealed and motivations shift one more time. And how many times have they been proved not to be? This is where homage meets subversion, I believe. The author is clearly knowledgeable about the genres he is writing. The elements of Science Fiction are just super cool even if they require a LOT of suspension of disbelief the impossibility of certain things, the outlandish conclusion to part one. That said, to take this book at face value is doing it a huge disservice, I think. But this is also where things become not only less fun but also potentially problematic once you really think things through. Jack Glass and to some extent the narrative would like you to believe he is one of those HE is not, of course. Dia is. We ourselves are locked in the story with a bunch of characters that are so violently and abhorrent bad they are almost caricatures. At the same time, Jack Glass continuously brings up the idea that there is an elemental importance and uniqueness of each human life — interestingly though he makes that point by exactly reinforcing the idea of valueless he is trying to dismantle. Given the evident advanced technology, I am pretty sure it would be more logical to use that than prisoners to excavate asteroids little by little. That this is not done sounds like a contradiction to me. Similarly, certain ideas are info-dumped and hammered through and things are explained point-blank to Dia, a character who is supposed to be the cleverest person ever. Granted that this could be an attempt to question genetically engineered cleverness. Why are people so far out in the future still doing the same shitty things , still being shitty to each other and also still talking about Shakespeare and quoting Sherlock Holmes? Are we not going to progress any more than that? The tone of each different part changes and it is amazing how they suit the point-view narrator. BUT does this even make sense from a writing perspective given it is ONE character who is narrating it to us? She is an awesome character and to me, the book is all about her. She is geeky and lover her own importance as an individualistic, privileged member of an important Clan to start with. But as her arc progresses this viewpoint changes into growth and understanding of her importance as an individual who is also a part of a larger universe, literally. My own interpretation is thus: Jack Glass is not the main character of this story although he is the main character of this novel only because the person doctorwatsonning it is clearly biased. This is the biggest gotcha of Jack Glass. It is as perfect as an ending can be because it perfectly suits the different strands of the novel and is extremely cynical as well as hopeful which is kind of weird, I admit. It is super fun and inventive but has a supremely boring foundation because it is so pessimistic. But the ending is so hopeful! It is both a huge triumph and a big failure! At the same time! Dec 14, Tudor Ciocarlie rated it it was amazing Shelves: hugo-numbers , my-best-of , z-adam-roberts. Another great novel by Adam Roberts, Jack Glass is a very exciting-to-read blend between "Golden Age science fiction and Golden Age detective fiction". Roberts doesn't try to make these genres something they are not, but he shows us what extraordinary things were done with this kind of fiction in the past, that Golden Age SF can still kick a punch or two and reminds us why we fell in love with SF. Jan 05, Tom LA rated it really liked it. What a splendid thing this book is. Inside and outside. I didn't read anything about the content or the author, I carefully avoided reading the cover blurb, and jumped into it in complete ignorance. I have a very visual imagination and I've loved many book covers before, but I've never bought a book just because of its cover, this was the very first time for me. A complete gamble. And I'm glad it paid off so well. So, just for a What a splendid thing this book is. So, just for a second, take a look at this cover. Not only its intricately crafted stained glass drawing is very beautiful in itself, it also: 1. This cover, in summary, is just a marvel to look at. Jack Glass is Science Fiction. From the start, we know from the narrator that the murderer in each story is Jack Glass, but that's all we know. The mistery is to discover who Jack is, and why and how he committed these murders. The first story blew my mind. It was actually reminiscing of some Golden Age SF. Big Ideas SF. It's dark, intense, full of ideas and horrific, heavy moments. With the second story the writing's tone shifts completely maybe a bit too much? Here is where Adam Roberts is much heavier on the detective fiction. Yes we are still in a distant future, but it really feels like reading an Agatha Christie or Arthur C. Doyle story. And that is a good, fun, exciting thing! You can certainly feel the playfulness and the joy that Roberts was feeling while writing this book. One could say that the main difference with a Sherlock Holmes story is that this is the future, and therefore it will be much easier for the author to come up with a clever resolution and make it seem oh-so-obvious, because he knows things about this world that the reader does not know. But I would counter that argument by noting how many of the Christie or Doyle stories, although based firmly in the present reality of their author, used very similar deus-ex-machina devices to resolve everything at the end, and to make the reader feel like he had the obvious solution in front his eyes the whole time. The third story sums everything up and brings us to a slightly deeper appreciation of Jack Glass as a complex character, and of his background. Look, this is just a load of intelligent fun. It's very well written. Does it lose a little bit of momentum at some points? Maybe it does. Is it a bit too cold in its intricated plotting matrix? Again, maybe, but deep and involving character development is not the point of this book at all. It's not a "perfect" book, but it deserves 4 stars and a half from me for the fun that I had reading it. And Bacigalupi finds his own answer in the fact that Roberts is a unique, very unconventional writer, who focuses on the Big Idea for each one of his books, and then moves on to something completely different, while it's much easier - and profitable - in these days to strike gold with a more or less original concept, and then cash in on the series, and keep writing about the same characters. That might very well be true. Jan 06, M. Lachlan rated it it was amazing. OK, I'll stick a caveat on this review - Adam Roberts has been very nice about my books, which I suppose leaves me very well disposed to his. However, if I didn't like the book I would just probably lie and tell him I liked it and not bother to review it. There are mild spoilers in this review, though I've done my best to be vague. This book is a take on the classic locked room mystery. However, it is a Russian doll of a novel, locked rooms inside locked rooms inside locked rooms varying in size OK, I'll stick a caveat on this review - Adam Roberts has been very nice about my books, which I suppose leaves me very well disposed to his. However, it is a Russian doll of a novel, locked rooms inside locked rooms inside locked rooms varying in size from someone's personal consciousness to the solar system. The plot is intriguing - a series of intersecting puzzles. The beginning is basically a short story where you wonder how our hero is going to extricate himself from a situation of extreme peril. It works well and the solution is ingenious but as Jack Glass is a hero of competence, someone from that long line of protagonists who can always be relied on to 'sort it out', what keeps you reading is the question of how he will succeed rather than if he will or not. The hero isn't identified clearly in the opening but I was not in doubt of who it was past the first 20 or so pages. It's a great opening but things become more intriguing when the POV shifts to that of a rich young woman whom Jack is following. You have no idea what his purpose is but as the cover does identify him as a murderer, you have a fair guess that some people may be for the chop - perhaps the POV character included. I found this tension very effective. From the personal concern for his survival it opens up to the question of the survival of humanity. I liked Roberts's use of language. Too many genre writers - if that's what Roberts is - relegate the bare bricks of sentence construction, word choice and description to second or third place in favour of plot and authenticity of the imagined world. Roberts clearly loves language and wordplay and can write. The main characters are well imagined and I particularly liked the hyper-intelligent Diana who speaks like a valley girl but has a brain the size of a planet. The combination of great intelligence and shallowness was one I hadn't seen before. What was wrong with the novel? Not much. Diana's language falls out of Valley speak for a while but there's perhaps a plausible reason for that - it's part of her character development. Jack Glass himself doesn't really emerge as a massively full character but then he is a man of mystery and so does what it says on the tin. The novel is a take on the locked room and you don't come to such books for a hugely affecting emotional experience. Jack Glass is unlikely to leave you exultant or in tears. The locked room provides an intellectual challenge. On that Roberts delivers in spades. I've heard Roberts called a 'clever' writer in the positive and negative connotations of the word. I've actually thought that myself at times when reading his books. However, I think that does him a disservice. The writing here evokes a real sense of place, the characters are well drawn, the ideas are intriguing and he tosses away interesting and thought provoking observations like Dan Brown throws in adverbs. OK, he is 'playing with form' which sounds a little wearying, but it doesn't obscure the story and it's possible to read Jack Glass as a straight SF adventure, complete with intriguing technologies, daring escapes, plot twists and the fate of the universe in the balance. My father, who is a golden age of SF pulp fan, very much enjoyed it. The final reason I'd recommend this book is that you won't have read much like it, though paradoxically it is riffing on a tradition. Jul 08, Andrea rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi. Excellent blend of classic whodunnits and classic sci-fi. Three scenarios - prison escape, country house murder mystery and locked-room murder - form the framework for perfectly paced revelations about a fascinating 'hero', most unusual 'heroine', and consistent, believable Solar System with corrupt political system. There have been comments in other reviews that the book ended abruptly, but in my view the author has revealed answers to all the mysteries and we appropriately leave the protagonis Excellent blend of classic whodunnits and classic sci-fi. There have been comments in other reviews that the book ended abruptly, but in my view the author has revealed answers to all the mysteries and we appropriately leave the protagonists to continue their lives. All is explained, the story is done. Jan 07, Brian Clegg rated it it was amazing. On the science fiction front I have to confess that pretty well every author I like I already liked in the s. I really haven't picked up anyone new. I suspect what made this for me is that Roberts consciously was setting out to write a book that took on some of the conventions of the golden ages of science fiction and crime writing - both favourites for me. It is a new book. It is a modern book. However it encompasses the best of the old. A On the science fiction front I have to confess that pretty well every author I like I already liked in the s. And the result is absolutely wonderful. The antihero of the book Jack Glass tells us up front that he is the murderer in each of three sections of the book - but this doesn't prevent the stories which fit together almost seamlessly from working in terms of suspense and anticipation. The first section is probably the weakest and the middle the strongest, so if you make a start and struggle a little with the starkness of the first, do keep going. Roberts happens to be a professor of literature and if I say it doesn't show, I mean that in the best possible way. Although the book is very well written with some elegant turns of phrase, it doesn't get in the way of the storytelling as is the case with much 'literary' writing. If I'm going to quibble, he gets the faster than light science wrong in the third section - but I always say that SF is fiction first and science second - this really isn't too much of a worry. If you like old school science fiction and haven't found anything you can really enjoy for years you should rush out and buy Jack Glass. Apr 24, Crowinator rated it really liked it Shelves: genre-mystery , antiheroes , assassins-and- serial-killers , adult , aliens-spaceships-space , thieves-cons-liars-spies , genre-science-fiction , reads. I found this snippet of a review in my e-mail drafts folder apparently, I was typing a review in an e-mail window back in and forgot about it all these years - impressive, no? Here it is: This book hit all of my sweet spots. Noble assassin. Gory deaths. Murder mystery. Thoughtful world-building. Novel space travel. It's tricky, intellectual, and a little weird. The structure is set-up as a three-part puzzle, with a frame tale that gives y I found this snippet of a review in my e-mail drafts folder apparently, I was typing a review in an e-mail window back in and forgot about it all these years - impressive, no? The structure is set-up as a three-part puzzle, with a frame tale that gives you, up front, the solution, the name of the murderer. It's Jack Glass, of course. But how he did it, and why, is the real puzzle. Like a magic trick, all is eventually revealed. Why have I never read this author before? Dec 07, K. Charles added it Shelves: sci-fi. It felt very like the Golden Age mysteries Roberts is riffing off, in that it was three cleverly constructed puzzles and the people were basically puzzle pieces moved to fit. Basically rather cold and hard with pages of dialogue about equations and physics and some really deathly dream sequences I don't want to hear lengthy accounts of people's dreams in real life; still less do I need five pages at a time off a fictional character , and the opening story has a really grim theme of prison rape which put me off the entire exercise. So yeah, not for me. Sep 30, Jo rated it it was amazing. This is something of a concept novel, pursued with much acuity and panache. Roberts claims to be braiding together the two so-called Golden Ages of genre fiction: the Golden Age of crime fiction roughly the interwar period and the Golden Age of science fiction roughly just afterwards. The Golden Ages are here to inspire, not to invigilate — Jack Glass does contain much which would be anachronistic in either period, and overall the feel is quite contemporary. The Golden Ages are here to inspire, not invigilate — Jack Glass also contains much which would be anachronistic in either period, and overall the feel is quite contemporary. He is stubborn as stubborn as a jackglass. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. After the first arc resolves itself, the tone lightens, and the book begins to bristle with jokes, little lyrical set-pieces and charming allusions, both overt and deniable. For instance. Jack was to be stuck on the asteroid for eleven years. Why eleven? The gorgeous prize-winning cover — stained glass rocket ships — does remind me a bit of a playing card. Jacks carry a rather tricksy aura. So what is he? Jacks used to be Knaves. Posh English people called Jacks Knaves until quite recently. Maybe some still do. Jacks blend in disquietingly well with the royal party. I reckon eleven years because the value of the Jack card is between that of a Ten and a Queen. There are three main puzzles, fairly ingenious, and relying on outlandish technology and circumstances to varying degrees. Indeed, Roberts checks some very well-known boxes — the locked room, the clearly demarcated list of suspects, the missing murder weapon, the multiplicity of motives — but he has obviously read widely within the genre, and his devices and allusions are not confined to the impoverished view of the genre as a set of camp, arid formulae, uninterested in realism and hermetically isolated from psychological and socio-economic categories check out e. Roberts confesses that his emphasis was upon Golden Age crime fiction. That makes sense to me, because although this is obviously science fiction — there are lasers and so forth — is it really Golden Age? The shibboleths were probably hushed and a little garbled here. The "eat your severed penis! We do see some problem-solving of a technological nature, and Roberts does evince a judiciously respectful attitude for physics, and in particularly does not lightly transgress the speed of light. They might have spoiled the crime side of things. Perhaps Roberts is sloshing together two immiscible substances? When a character who is unused to gravity comes across a corpse, she is shocked by the way the blood presses flat against the ground, rather than hanging in the air in spheres as it normally would. This functions as a sort of clue, since gravity turns out to be a key feature of the murder. All in all, gimmicky, but I wished it would never end. May 01, Stephen rated it liked it Shelves: mystery , science-fiction , book-club. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book started off well, if rather gruesomely. I enjoyed the world, enjoyed Jack Glass and then Diana Argent when we met her. All was well up until the end of the book; it wouldn't have been my favorite book of the year, but it probably would have been a solid four. The first two sections the books is divided up into 3 distinct but interrelated stories , worked well. The third one was working well. First, Jack Glass becomes a very different character from the one we've been learning about; we This book started off well, if rather gruesomely. First, Jack Glass becomes a very different character from the one we've been learning about; we learn he loves platonically Diana. All fine and well, except, unlike the mysteries, it hasn't been set up. The reader hasn't been shown Jack transitioning from a hard edged but idealistic killer to someone willing to sacrifice his own freedom and life, and likely that of humanity, for one woman. I could have been made to buy that change, but the author didn't do the work to sell it to me. Second off, the solution to the locked room mystery doesn't work. I have to complain about science. So, FTL has been invented. Expect it's only kind-of Faster-Than- Light because the inventor has managed to change the speed of light, C--so an object using FTL doesn't actually go above the speed of light. All well in good, accepted, if unusual physics--of a sort that does more to provide a paradox than a real explanation of physical possibilities, since FTL is impossible. Here's the thing, the third story features an FTL gun, and the bullet travels backwards in time. And, I would say, cool. And since the bullet does not exceed C, but rather it remains under a much higher C, it would still be travelling forwards, rather than backwards in time. Ergo, the story is trying to have too many explanation for it's version of FTL, and the third mystery just falls apart. If it's hadn't been central to the mystery, I wouldn't have cared so much I don't mind the suggestion that C itself is being altered, because that fits in the with the speculative mood set in this book , but as it stands bad science ruins the mystery. Aug 05, Melissa Prange rated it it was amazing Shelves: scifi , fiction , mystery. The story is rock solid. That I can say. I loved the combo of mystery and science fiction. But other than that, I just have to say that I loved this novel. It was just so good. Jack Glass is a universe renowned murderer and this is his tale. Imprisoned by the Ulanovas for a crime he did not commit, Glass finds himself on a distant piece of rock with six other very dangerous men. The men quickly begin building their own power structure which Glass finds himself nearly at the bottom of. Tensions run high as the men struggle to survive on their inhospitable home. Death looms for all of them—the only question is whether they will be killed by their surroundings or by each other. Knowing that he only has so much time to escape before the Ulanovas find out the crime s he really did commit or his companions kill him, Glass begins working on his plan of escape. Jack Glass, like I said before, is a really great novel. And, beyond all that, the story is fabulous. The characters were great too in spite of you not really being able to get to know them before the final act of the book. I heartily recommend this book in general. Read it, read it, read it. Nov 26, Anna rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , scifi , crime. Adam Roberts is one of the most consistently interesting sci-fi writers that I've come across. His novels tend to contain a strikingly bizarre central concept, the implications of which are then spun out. My favourite example of this is Land of the Headless , probably the only novel you will ever read in which the main characters have been decapitated before the story begins. In 'Jack Glass', the central conceit is stylistic - the reader is told of three murder mysteries and that the eponymous an Adam Roberts is one of the most consistently interesting sci-fi writers that I've come across. In 'Jack Glass', the central conceit is stylistic - the reader is told of three murder mysteries and that the eponymous anti-hero is the murderer in each case. Knowing this, each third of the book is spent trying to work out how and why each killing took place. This caused a marked reluctance on my part to put the book down until I'd finished it, as I genuinely wanted to know the answers and felt compelled to make incorrect guesses. The interlinked murder mysteries take place within a very intriguing and well-drawn world, a few hundred years in the future. Although elements reminded me of novels by Gwyneth Jones, John Courtney Grimwood, Alaistair Reynolds, and Neal Stephenson, the overall feel of it was fresh and original. I especially appreciated the discussion of how the economics in this world operated, and how this interacted with the political situation. The range of religions mentioned was also amusingly satirical, especially when economics-as-religion came up. The politics had an unsubtle neo-Marxism about them, which I liked. I found the depth of world-building impressive, given that that the book read like a marriage of straightforward sci-fi adventure with a murder mystery sequence. The progression of events drives the narrative, dragging the characters along behind it. I would have liked to hear more from Sapho, especially in the discussion of revolution. At one point I caught a reference to her being in one place having been previously stated to be in another, then assumed this would have some key significance. It did not, so I assume it was a typo. I approve of Jack Glass himself remaining something of an enigma, though, and Diana Argent seemed like a realistically self-absorbed teenager. Overall, 'Jack Glass' was a very entertaining, clever, and beautifully imagined novel. Long may Adam Roberts continue to have such great ideas. Now I need to find a copy of By Light Alone. Jan 02, Kimberley rated it liked it Shelves: read Jack Glass is an exceptional science-fiction novel. While I often find science-fiction both tedious and difficult to read, I really enjoyed this book. The only downside to this novel was that, for me, it got progressively weaker. The book is separated into three sections. I found the characterisations absolutely stunning and, above all, interesting. The descriptions were wonderfully done a Jack Glass is an exceptional science-fiction novel. The descriptions were wonderfully done and while a certain bit made a bit queasy, I liked it. The second section introduced Diana, who acts as a main character alongside Jack. I found her an essentially weak and under-developed character. Her sister, on the other hand, I found completely enchanting. The third section was, again, a little bit predictable. And, for me, not nearly as interesting as the previous two. The end of the section was probably the most disappointing. He was mysterious, driven and a murderer with a cause. Then, all of a sudden, he confessed his love for Diana. It, to me, came completely out of the blue. I didn't think it was plausible with the rest of the story and, honestly, I just didn't see why it was necessary. I loved the world-building and Jack Glass is a great character. There were just some bits that really, really got to me. I found the end hugely disappointing and nothing seemed to measure up the gripping introduction. That, and the predictability of it and some characters that I thought could've been more developed meant that I rated this book three stars. I also have to say that I think the cover is beautiful. The colours are vibrant and it's just so beautiful that I couldn't help but pick the book up. Aug 23, Dragos Iosif rated it did not like it. This is the first case I encounter where a book's marketing "golden age SF and golden age detective" - this sounds so good that it got obsessively repeated by every reviewer; pre-chewed thoughts for everyone! Actually, they are the only good parts about it. First story: starts slow, couldn't care less about the characters, a lot of nothing happens, get the feeling that maybe the writer was payed by the number of pages. Solution: the This is the first case I encounter where a book's marketing "golden age SF and golden age detective" - this sounds so good that it got obsessively repeated by every reviewer; pre-chewed thoughts for everyone! Solution: there is A LOT of suspension of disbelief required to accept the ending. Like turning off your brain for a couple of pages. And uses it to travel from one asteroid to the other. It makes you think on what "research" are the guys at NASA spending their funds, if the suits are so easy to craft. No need for a proper seal. No worries. Solution: a lot of disappointment. That's just bullshit. These were the worst mystery stories I have ever read. You cannot expect to be taken seriously as a writer if you provide laughably bad or impossible soutions to the big questions in your book. Feb 26, Chris rated it liked it. Roberts writes wonderfully flawed sci-fi. This book is a mashup of dystopian scifi with the "duh-duh-duh" mystery short story, except we always know who did it - "Jack Glass", but the challenge is to figure out how. This is introduced to us by a narrator, presumably to let us prepare for the convoluted explanations that abound in these sorts of books and indeed a character in one story even pokes fun at this tendency in murder mysteries. The first story is great, and unfortunately the best. I Roberts writes wonderfully flawed sci-fi. I was still chuckling 20 pages into the second story and Roberts makes several clever references to the first story in the second to keep those chuckles coming. The second itself is a fairly fun take on the "murder among the help" motif, unfortunately it bogs down in trying to reveal Jack - the man behind the murder machine. Even more unfortunately, the final story is a direct continuation of the second and is even more focused on building empathy with Jack. This progression just didn't mesh well in a short book with three murder mysteries all involving the same super criminal. Aug 23, Nat rated it it was ok. This has been one of the most difficult novels to give a rating to. It has a 3-part structure and the first part is considerably different from the rest. It's hard to get your head around the change in tone from gritty prisoners to self-entitled teenagers and, for me, the ending completely ruins the whole experience. Nov 30, fromcouchtomoon rated it really liked it. Replete with both the charm and chaff of golden age fiction, Roberts crafts a series of Hard Scifi murder mysteries to stump the reader, while drawing on the tropiest tropishness of tropocity. Space bubbles! Oct 10, Charles Dee Mitchell rated it liked it Shelves: contemporary-sf. Roberts' novel is an ingenious combination of sf and old-fashioned "locked room" mysteries. I didn't understand my growing lack of engagement with the story until I remembered about half way through it that I have never cared for locked-room mysteries. But is is very well done. They did a superb job. 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In his early twenties he collapsed in Jamaica Street, Glasgow, due to the erosion of a blood vessel. While lying in hospital recovering he felt a call to the ministry. He was ordained to the ministry in after studying moral philosophy and English at the University of Glasgow , plus a three-year theological course in the Free Church College in Edinburgh. There, he obtained a college diploma for his "proficiency in the subjects required". During his studies he was awarded with a distinction in homiletics and firsts in the subjects of Greek and Hebrew. Previous to this, Glass had left the Baptist Union College due to what he felt were its non-scriptural ecumenical involvement. Glass went on to minister at Zion Baptist Church, the church he had founded in The church is Calvinistic , Baptist and Separatist. The church met first at Edrom St. He was the editor of the Scottish Protestant View , an evangelical Protestant newspaper started by him in He was also Chairman of the Twentieth Century Reformation Movement which was reported as being considered by him to be the 'political arm' of his church. In following years he was to become well known for his protests against ecumenism and Roman Catholicism. This culminated in a series of protests against the Papal visit to Britain in , the first time a reigning Pope had set foot on the nominally Protestant island. For added publicity, Glass had put himself up as a candidate in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election on 25 March Under the description 'Protestant Crusade against the Papal Visit' he got votes. Glass had stood for Parliament before; having been a candidate in the Glasgow Bridgeton constituency, a safe Labour seat, at the general election. Standing as an Independent Protestant, he received 1, votes 6. On 1 June , Glass and Paisley jointly led a protest march through Glasgow which culminated in a demonstration near the landing site of the Papal helicopter in Bellahouston Park. He was recognized as a biblical literalist. Glass protested against ecumenism and, as he perceived it, the sins of an increasingly ungodly generation. He regularly preached four sermons a week. He campaigned against perceived blasphemy on many occasions. When protests by Pastor Glass led to an increase in ticket sales for the Glasgow performance of the comic stage version of The Bible by the Reduced Shakespeare Company , the company announced they would like to offer Glass a free ticket as thanks. Paisley however once noted that Jack Glass was "a bit of an extremist". Get a quick, accurate quote for any windshield or auto glass replacement or repair. For insurance agents, get started here. Need window or door repairs? Or help with a customized solution for your home? Get a quote! Whether glass door update or full bath remodel, start your project with a quote. Secure a dependable quote for any glass installation, repair and replacement project. We successfully handle insurance claims every day, working with you to process your claims, often at zero cost to you. Our design teams have been making local homes and offices more beautiful, secure and efficient for over 70 years. Our talented team of technicians can evaluate your needs and recommend solutions — on your schedule and at no cost to you. They were professional, responsive, punctual and reasonable. Their work is very good, and I would use them again without hesitation. We wanted a glass splash shower panel for our bathtub… a custom-made piece of glass. Needless to say, we were pleased. They did a superb job. Men were polite, courteous, no-nonsense professionals and seemed to go out of their way for us. Cincy/NKY’s best experts for any glass needs: Jack’s Glass

He was the dux of his local Springfield school, which gave him an automatic scholarship to the local authority maintained but fee-paying Allan Glen's School in Glasgow. He turned the scholarship down because he did not want to be separated from his local friends. He attended Riverside Senior Secondary instead. Glass was " born again " at the age of 11 in a Salvation Army Sunday School. These events shaped the rest of his life. In his early twenties he collapsed in Jamaica Street, Glasgow, due to the erosion of a blood vessel. While lying in hospital recovering he felt a call to the ministry. He was ordained to the ministry in after studying moral philosophy and English at the University of Glasgow , plus a three-year theological course in the Free Church College in Edinburgh. There, he obtained a college diploma for his "proficiency in the subjects required". During his studies he was awarded with a distinction in homiletics and firsts in the subjects of Greek and Hebrew. Previous to this, Glass had left the Baptist Union College due to what he felt were its non-scriptural ecumenical involvement. Glass went on to minister at Zion Baptist Church, the church he had founded in The church is Calvinistic , Baptist and Separatist. The church met first at Edrom St. He was the editor of the Scottish Protestant View , an evangelical Protestant newspaper started by him in He was also Chairman of the Twentieth Century Reformation Movement which was reported as being considered by him to be the 'political arm' of his church. In following years he was to become well known for his protests against ecumenism and Roman Catholicism. This culminated in a series of protests against the Papal visit to Britain in , the first time a reigning Pope had set foot on the nominally Protestant island. For added publicity, Glass had put himself up as a candidate in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election on 25 March Under the description 'Protestant Crusade against the Papal Visit' he got votes. Glass had stood for Parliament before; having been a candidate in the Glasgow Bridgeton constituency, a safe Labour seat, at the general election. Standing as an Independent Protestant, he received 1, votes 6. On 1 June , Glass and Paisley jointly led a protest march through Glasgow which culminated in a demonstration near the landing site of the Papal helicopter in Bellahouston Park. He was recognized as a biblical literalist. And since this is Roberts the writing is good -- or it's better, anyway, than you'd tend to expect from such a plot-heavy book. But that's as far as it goes: better than you'd expect. Not just-plain-good in the way BLA was just-plain-good. Not Roberts' best, but a lot of fun. Jul 01, TheBookSmugglers rated it really liked it. Jack Glass is an impossible book. Jack Glass is ostensibly a blend of Golden Age Science Fiction and Golden Age Crime — to which point this is a homage or subversion is up for discussion. Set in the far future — humanity has travelled extensively in the Solar System and spread out as far as it can go. Those who are really lucky end up working for the Clans and Corporations who run everything. The story is divided in three interlinked parts: a prison story, a whodunit and a locked-room mystery. Jack Glass is the murderer: we know this from the get go. In the meantime: FTL! Faster Than Light travel — an impossibility according to the Law of Physics. Something that is both the epitome of Hope imagine being able to travel even further afield, away from this horrendous reality and start anew! Their survival depends on them working together to make the asteroid habitable which is both about their survival and the point of their sentence: they are given the necessary tools to extend the one room they dumped in an advanced substance locks them in and allows them some air , create new chambers, grow food after they dig and find ice. At the end of these 11 years, they go free, the corporation that dropped them there resells the now inhabitable asteroid, everybody wins. If they can make those 11 years, that is. Because humans being humans, as soon as they are left there, a power hierarchy is established between the 7 individuals. The other is a legless man in a universe where most inhabitable places are gravity-free, why would anyone even need legs? Needless to say: the prison story is also a locked-room mystery and to some extent a whodunit. We know something really bad is going to happen and we know that Jack Glass will do it because we have been told so. It is a case of sitting down and abiding time to see how exactly things will play out. This first part is perfectly horrible and suffocating in its unstopping violence. Was so good! The obvious claustrophobic environment expertly replicated in the writing itself. But Jac needs to get away before the people who put him there realise who he really is. In the end Jack does what Jack does best the greatest criminal of all time, the biggest murderer the world has ever seen and manages the impossible. They are the future of Clan Argent, genetically engineered to be master problem-solvers. Not that she has had any chance to actually be sympathetic so far as her privilege is so deeply ingrained. The sisters are surrounded by their bodyguards, their servants and their tutor Iago all of whom receive hormone injections that hinder their sense of individuality and amplify their love for their employers. Which is why when one the servants is mauled to death in a locked-room no less no suspicion is raised about the safety of the two sisters. Instead, this becomes the perfect opportunity for Dia to apply her knowledge to a Real Murder. It is painfully obvious to surmise who Jack Glass is in this scenario. But then again the WHO has never been the point. Things are not as simple as they look and the WHYdunit of this case is quite possibly the most important thing about Jack Glass. Whodunit, Locked-Room, Prison Escape yes, this too. The second part is all three at once as well. But here is where things reach their climax, overall character arcs are revealed and motivations shift one more time. And how many times have they been proved not to be? This is where homage meets subversion, I believe. The author is clearly knowledgeable about the genres he is writing. The elements of Science Fiction are just super cool even if they require a LOT of suspension of disbelief the impossibility of certain things, the outlandish conclusion to part one. That said, to take this book at face value is doing it a huge disservice, I think. But this is also where things become not only less fun but also potentially problematic once you really think things through. Jack Glass and to some extent the narrative would like you to believe he is one of those HE is not, of course. Dia is. We ourselves are locked in the story with a bunch of characters that are so violently and abhorrent bad they are almost caricatures. At the same time, Jack Glass continuously brings up the idea that there is an elemental importance and uniqueness of each human life — interestingly though he makes that point by exactly reinforcing the idea of valueless he is trying to dismantle. Given the evident advanced technology, I am pretty sure it would be more logical to use that than prisoners to excavate asteroids little by little. That this is not done sounds like a contradiction to me. Similarly, certain ideas are info-dumped and hammered through and things are explained point-blank to Dia, a character who is supposed to be the cleverest person ever. Granted that this could be an attempt to question genetically engineered cleverness. Why are people so far out in the future still doing the same shitty things , still being shitty to each other and also still talking about Shakespeare and quoting Sherlock Holmes? Are we not going to progress any more than that? The tone of each different part changes and it is amazing how they suit the point-view narrator. BUT does this even make sense from a writing perspective given it is ONE character who is narrating it to us? She is an awesome character and to me, the book is all about her. She is geeky and lover her own importance as an individualistic, privileged member of an important Clan to start with. But as her arc progresses this viewpoint changes into growth and understanding of her importance as an individual who is also a part of a larger universe, literally. My own interpretation is thus: Jack Glass is not the main character of this story although he is the main character of this novel only because the person doctorwatsonning it is clearly biased. This is the biggest gotcha of Jack Glass. It is as perfect as an ending can be because it perfectly suits the different strands of the novel and is extremely cynical as well as hopeful which is kind of weird, I admit. It is super fun and inventive but has a supremely boring foundation because it is so pessimistic. But the ending is so hopeful! It is both a huge triumph and a big failure! At the same time! Dec 14, Tudor Ciocarlie rated it it was amazing Shelves: hugo-numbers , my-best-of , z-adam-roberts. Another great novel by Adam Roberts, Jack Glass is a very exciting-to-read blend between "Golden Age science fiction and Golden Age detective fiction". Roberts doesn't try to make these genres something they are not, but he shows us what extraordinary things were done with this kind of fiction in the past, that Golden Age SF can still kick a punch or two and reminds us why we fell in love with SF. Jan 05, Tom LA rated it really liked it. What a splendid thing this book is. Inside and outside. I didn't read anything about the content or the author, I carefully avoided reading the cover blurb, and jumped into it in complete ignorance. I have a very visual imagination and I've loved many book covers before, but I've never bought a book just because of its cover, this was the very first time for me. A complete gamble. And I'm glad it paid off so well. So, just for a What a splendid thing this book is. So, just for a second, take a look at this cover. Not only its intricately crafted stained glass drawing is very beautiful in itself, it also: 1. This cover, in summary, is just a marvel to look at. Jack Glass is Science Fiction. From the start, we know from the narrator that the murderer in each story is Jack Glass, but that's all we know. The mistery is to discover who Jack is, and why and how he committed these murders. The first story blew my mind. It was actually reminiscing of some Golden Age SF. Big Ideas SF. It's dark, intense, full of ideas and horrific, heavy moments. With the second story the writing's tone shifts completely maybe a bit too much? Here is where Adam Roberts is much heavier on the detective fiction. Yes we are still in a distant future, but it really feels like reading an Agatha Christie or Arthur C. Doyle story. And that is a good, fun, exciting thing! You can certainly feel the playfulness and the joy that Roberts was feeling while writing this book. One could say that the main difference with a Sherlock Holmes story is that this is the future, and therefore it will be much easier for the author to come up with a clever resolution and make it seem oh-so-obvious, because he knows things about this world that the reader does not know. But I would counter that argument by noting how many of the Christie or Doyle stories, although based firmly in the present reality of their author, used very similar deus-ex-machina devices to resolve everything at the end, and to make the reader feel like he had the obvious solution in front his eyes the whole time. The third story sums everything up and brings us to a slightly deeper appreciation of Jack Glass as a complex character, and of his background. Look, this is just a load of intelligent fun. It's very well written. Does it lose a little bit of momentum at some points? Maybe it does. Is it a bit too cold in its intricated plotting matrix? Again, maybe, but deep and involving character development is not the point of this book at all. It's not a "perfect" book, but it deserves 4 stars and a half from me for the fun that I had reading it. And Bacigalupi finds his own answer in the fact that Roberts is a unique, very unconventional writer, who focuses on the Big Idea for each one of his books, and then moves on to something completely different, while it's much easier - and profitable - in these days to strike gold with a more or less original concept, and then cash in on the series, and keep writing about the same characters. That might very well be true. Jan 06, M. Lachlan rated it it was amazing. OK, I'll stick a caveat on this review - Adam Roberts has been very nice about my books, which I suppose leaves me very well disposed to his. However, if I didn't like the book I would just probably lie and tell him I liked it and not bother to review it. There are mild spoilers in this review, though I've done my best to be vague. This book is a take on the classic locked room mystery. However, it is a Russian doll of a novel, locked rooms inside locked rooms inside locked rooms varying in size OK, I'll stick a caveat on this review - Adam Roberts has been very nice about my books, which I suppose leaves me very well disposed to his. However, it is a Russian doll of a novel, locked rooms inside locked rooms inside locked rooms varying in size from someone's personal consciousness to the solar system. The plot is intriguing - a series of intersecting puzzles. The beginning is basically a short story where you wonder how our hero is going to extricate himself from a situation of extreme peril. It works well and the solution is ingenious but as Jack Glass is a hero of competence, someone from that long line of protagonists who can always be relied on to 'sort it out', what keeps you reading is the question of how he will succeed rather than if he will or not. The hero isn't identified clearly in the opening but I was not in doubt of who it was past the first 20 or so pages. It's a great opening but things become more intriguing when the POV shifts to that of a rich young woman whom Jack is following. You have no idea what his purpose is but as the cover does identify him as a murderer, you have a fair guess that some people may be for the chop - perhaps the POV character included. I found this tension very effective. From the personal concern for his survival it opens up to the question of the survival of humanity. I liked Roberts's use of language. Too many genre writers - if that's what Roberts is - relegate the bare bricks of sentence construction, word choice and description to second or third place in favour of plot and authenticity of the imagined world. Roberts clearly loves language and wordplay and can write. The main characters are well imagined and I particularly liked the hyper-intelligent Diana who speaks like a valley girl but has a brain the size of a planet. The combination of great intelligence and shallowness was one I hadn't seen before. What was wrong with the novel? Not much. Diana's language falls out of Valley speak for a while but there's perhaps a plausible reason for that - it's part of her character development. Jack Glass himself doesn't really emerge as a massively full character but then he is a man of mystery and so does what it says on the tin. The novel is a take on the locked room and you don't come to such books for a hugely affecting emotional experience. Jack Glass is unlikely to leave you exultant or in tears. The locked room provides an intellectual challenge. On that Roberts delivers in spades. I've heard Roberts called a 'clever' writer in the positive and negative connotations of the word. I've actually thought that myself at times when reading his books. However, I think that does him a disservice. The writing here evokes a real sense of place, the characters are well drawn, the ideas are intriguing and he tosses away interesting and thought provoking observations like Dan Brown throws in adverbs. OK, he is 'playing with form' which sounds a little wearying, but it doesn't obscure the story and it's possible to read Jack Glass as a straight SF adventure, complete with intriguing technologies, daring escapes, plot twists and the fate of the universe in the balance. My father, who is a golden age of SF pulp fan, very much enjoyed it. The final reason I'd recommend this book is that you won't have read much like it, though paradoxically it is riffing on a tradition. Jul 08, Andrea rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi. Excellent blend of classic whodunnits and classic sci-fi. Three scenarios - prison escape, country house murder mystery and locked-room murder - form the framework for perfectly paced revelations about a fascinating 'hero', most unusual 'heroine', and consistent, believable Solar System with corrupt political system. There have been comments in other reviews that the book ended abruptly, but in my view the author has revealed answers to all the mysteries and we appropriately leave the protagonis Excellent blend of classic whodunnits and classic sci-fi. There have been comments in other reviews that the book ended abruptly, but in my view the author has revealed answers to all the mysteries and we appropriately leave the protagonists to continue their lives. All is explained, the story is done. Jan 07, Brian Clegg rated it it was amazing. On the science fiction front I have to confess that pretty well every author I like I already liked in the s. I really haven't picked up anyone new. I suspect what made this for me is that Roberts consciously was setting out to write a book that took on some of the conventions of the golden ages of science fiction and crime writing - both favourites for me. It is a new book. It is a modern book. However it encompasses the best of the old. A On the science fiction front I have to confess that pretty well every author I like I already liked in the s. And the result is absolutely wonderful. The antihero of the book Jack Glass tells us up front that he is the murderer in each of three sections of the book - but this doesn't prevent the stories which fit together almost seamlessly from working in terms of suspense and anticipation. The first section is probably the weakest and the middle the strongest, so if you make a start and struggle a little with the starkness of the first, do keep going. Roberts happens to be a professor of literature and if I say it doesn't show, I mean that in the best possible way. Although the book is very well written with some elegant turns of phrase, it doesn't get in the way of the storytelling as is the case with much 'literary' writing. If I'm going to quibble, he gets the faster than light science wrong in the third section - but I always say that SF is fiction first and science second - this really isn't too much of a worry. If you like old school science fiction and haven't found anything you can really enjoy for years you should rush out and buy Jack Glass. Apr 24, Crowinator rated it really liked it Shelves: genre-mystery , antiheroes , assassins-and-serial-killers , adult , aliens-spaceships- space , thieves-cons-liars-spies , genre-science-fiction , reads. I found this snippet of a review in my e-mail drafts folder apparently, I was typing a review in an e-mail window back in and forgot about it all these years - impressive, no? Here it is: This book hit all of my sweet spots. Noble assassin. Gory deaths. Murder mystery. Thoughtful world- building. Novel space travel. It's tricky, intellectual, and a little weird. The structure is set-up as a three-part puzzle, with a frame tale that gives y I found this snippet of a review in my e-mail drafts folder apparently, I was typing a review in an e-mail window back in and forgot about it all these years - impressive, no? The structure is set-up as a three-part puzzle, with a frame tale that gives you, up front, the solution, the name of the murderer. It's Jack Glass, of course. But how he did it, and why, is the real puzzle. Like a magic trick, all is eventually revealed. Why have I never read this author before? Dec 07, K. Charles added it Shelves: sci-fi. It felt very like the Golden Age mysteries Roberts is riffing off, in that it was three cleverly constructed puzzles and the people were basically puzzle pieces moved to fit. Basically rather cold and hard with pages of dialogue about equations and physics and some really deathly dream sequences I don't want to hear lengthy accounts of people's dreams in real life; still less do I need five pages at a time off a fictional character , and the opening story has a really grim theme of prison rape which put me off the entire exercise. So yeah, not for me. Sep 30, Jo rated it it was amazing. This is something of a concept novel, pursued with much acuity and panache. Roberts claims to be braiding together the two so-called Golden Ages of genre fiction: the Golden Age of crime fiction roughly the interwar period and the Golden Age of science fiction roughly just afterwards. The Golden Ages are here to inspire, not to invigilate — Jack Glass does contain much which would be anachronistic in either period, and overall the feel is quite contemporary. The Golden Ages are here to inspire, not invigilate — Jack Glass also contains much which would be anachronistic in either period, and overall the feel is quite contemporary. He is stubborn as stubborn as a jackglass. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. After the first arc resolves itself, the tone lightens, and the book begins to bristle with jokes, little lyrical set-pieces and charming allusions, both overt and deniable. For instance. Jack was to be stuck on the asteroid for eleven years. Why eleven? The gorgeous prize-winning cover — stained glass rocket ships — does remind me a bit of a playing card. Jacks carry a rather tricksy aura. So what is he? Jacks used to be Knaves. Posh English people called Jacks Knaves until quite recently. Maybe some still do. Jacks blend in disquietingly well with the royal party. I reckon eleven years because the value of the Jack card is between that of a Ten and a Queen. There are three main puzzles, fairly ingenious, and relying on outlandish technology and circumstances to varying degrees. Indeed, Roberts checks some very well-known boxes — the locked room, the clearly demarcated list of suspects, the missing murder weapon, the multiplicity of motives — but he has obviously read widely within the genre, and his devices and allusions are not confined to the impoverished view of the genre as a set of camp, arid formulae, uninterested in realism and hermetically isolated from psychological and socio-economic categories check out e. Roberts confesses that his emphasis was upon Golden Age crime fiction. That makes sense to me, because although this is obviously science fiction — there are lasers and so forth — is it really Golden Age? The shibboleths were probably hushed and a little garbled here. The "eat your severed penis! We do see some problem-solving of a technological nature, and Roberts does evince a judiciously respectful attitude for physics, and in particularly does not lightly transgress the speed of light. They might have spoiled the crime side of things. Perhaps Roberts is sloshing together two immiscible substances? When a character who is unused to gravity comes across a corpse, she is shocked by the way the blood presses flat against the ground, rather than hanging in the air in spheres as it normally would. This functions as a sort of clue, since gravity turns out to be a key feature of the murder. All in all, gimmicky, but I wished it would never end. May 01, Stephen rated it liked it Shelves: mystery , science-fiction , book-club. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book started off well, if rather gruesomely. I enjoyed the world, enjoyed Jack Glass and then Diana Argent when we met her. All was well up until the end of the book; it wouldn't have been my favorite book of the year, but it probably would have been a solid four. The first two sections the books is divided up into 3 distinct but interrelated stories , worked well. The third one was working well. First, Jack Glass becomes a very different character from the one we've been learning about; we This book started off well, if rather gruesomely. First, Jack Glass becomes a very different character from the one we've been learning about; we learn he loves platonically Diana. All fine and well, except, unlike the mysteries, it hasn't been set up. The reader hasn't been shown Jack transitioning from a hard edged but idealistic killer to someone willing to sacrifice his own freedom and life, and likely that of humanity, for one woman. I could have been made to buy that change, but the author didn't do the work to sell it to me. Second off, the solution to the locked room mystery doesn't work. I have to complain about science. So, FTL has been invented. Expect it's only kind-of Faster-Than- Light because the inventor has managed to change the speed of light, C--so an object using FTL doesn't actually go above the speed of light. All well in good, accepted, if unusual physics--of a sort that does more to provide a paradox than a real explanation of physical possibilities, since FTL is impossible. Here's the thing, the third story features an FTL gun, and the bullet travels backwards in time. And, I would say, cool. And since the bullet does not exceed C, but rather it remains under a much higher C, it would still be travelling forwards, rather than backwards in time. Ergo, the story is trying to have too many explanation for it's version of FTL, and the third mystery just falls apart. If it's hadn't been central to the mystery, I wouldn't have cared so much I don't mind the suggestion that C itself is being altered, because that fits in the with the speculative mood set in this book , but as it stands bad science ruins the mystery. Aug 05, Melissa Prange rated it it was amazing Shelves: scifi , fiction , mystery. The story is rock solid. That I can say. I loved the combo of mystery and science fiction. But other than that, I just have to say that I loved this novel. It was just so good. Jack Glass is a universe renowned murderer and this is his tale. Imprisoned by the Ulanovas for a crime he did not commit, Glass finds himself on a distant piece of rock with six other very dangerous men. The men quickly begin building their own power structure which Glass finds himself nearly at the bottom of. Tensions run high as the men struggle to survive on their inhospitable home. Death looms for all of them—the only question is whether they will be killed by their surroundings or by each other. Knowing that he only has so much time to escape before the Ulanovas find out the crime s he really did commit or his companions kill him, Glass begins working on his plan of escape. Jack Glass, like I said before, is a really great novel. And, beyond all that, the story is fabulous. The characters were great too in spite of you not really being able to get to know them before the final act of the book. I heartily recommend this book in general. Read it, read it, read it. Nov 26, Anna rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , scifi , crime. Adam Roberts is one of the most consistently interesting sci-fi writers that I've come across. His novels tend to contain a strikingly bizarre central concept, the implications of which are then spun out. My favourite example of this is Land of the Headless , probably the only novel you will ever read in which the main characters have been decapitated before the story begins. In 'Jack Glass', the central conceit is stylistic - the reader is told of three murder mysteries and that the eponymous an Adam Roberts is one of the most consistently interesting sci-fi writers that I've come across. In 'Jack Glass', the central conceit is stylistic - the reader is told of three murder mysteries and that the eponymous anti-hero is the murderer in each case. Knowing this, each third of the book is spent trying to work out how and why each killing took place. This caused a marked reluctance on my part to put the book down until I'd finished it, as I genuinely wanted to know the answers and felt compelled to make incorrect guesses. The interlinked murder mysteries take place within a very intriguing and well-drawn world, a few hundred years in the future. Although elements reminded me of novels by Gwyneth Jones, John Courtney Grimwood, Alaistair Reynolds, and Neal Stephenson, the overall feel of it was fresh and original. I especially appreciated the discussion of how the economics in this world operated, and how this interacted with the political situation. The range of religions mentioned was also amusingly satirical, especially when economics-as-religion came up. The politics had an unsubtle neo-Marxism about them, which I liked. I found the depth of world-building impressive, given that that the book read like a marriage of straightforward sci-fi adventure with a murder mystery sequence. The progression of events drives the narrative, dragging the characters along behind it. I would have liked to hear more from Sapho, especially in the discussion of revolution. At one point I caught a reference to her being in one place having been previously stated to be in another, then assumed this would have some key significance. It did not, so I assume it was a typo. I approve of Jack Glass himself remaining something of an enigma, though, and Diana Argent seemed like a realistically self-absorbed teenager. Overall, 'Jack Glass' was a very entertaining, clever, and beautifully imagined novel. Long may Adam Roberts continue to have such great ideas. Now I need to find a copy of By Light Alone. Jan 02, Kimberley rated it liked it Shelves: read Jack Glass is an exceptional science-fiction novel. While I often find science-fiction both tedious and difficult to read, I really enjoyed this book. The only downside to this novel was that, for me, it got progressively weaker. The book is separated into three sections. I found the characterisations absolutely stunning and, above all, interesting. The descriptions were wonderfully done a Jack Glass is an exceptional science-fiction novel. The descriptions were wonderfully done and while a certain bit made a bit queasy, I liked it. The second section introduced Diana, who acts as a main character alongside Jack. I found her an essentially weak and under-developed character. Her sister, on the other hand, I found completely enchanting. The third section was, again, a little bit predictable. And, for me, not nearly as interesting as the previous two. The end of the section was probably the most disappointing. He was mysterious, driven and a murderer with a cause. Then, all of a sudden, he confessed his love for Diana. It, to me, came completely out of the blue. I didn't think it was plausible with the rest of the story and, honestly, I just didn't see why it was necessary. I loved the world-building and Jack Glass is a great character. There were just some bits that really, really got to me. I found the end hugely disappointing and nothing seemed to measure up the gripping introduction. That, and the predictability of it and some characters that I thought could've been more developed meant that I rated this book three stars. I also have to say that I think the cover is beautiful. The colours are vibrant and it's just so beautiful that I couldn't help but pick the book up. Aug 23, Dragos Iosif rated it did not like it. This is the first case I encounter where a book's marketing "golden age SF and golden age detective" - this sounds so good that it got obsessively repeated by every reviewer; pre-chewed thoughts for everyone! Actually, they are the only good parts about it. First story: starts slow, couldn't care less about the characters, a lot of nothing happens, get the feeling that maybe the writer was payed by the number of pages. Solution: the This is the first case I encounter where a book's marketing "golden age SF and golden age detective" - this sounds so good that it got obsessively repeated by every reviewer; pre-chewed thoughts for everyone! Solution: there is A LOT of suspension of disbelief required to accept the ending. Like turning off your brain for a couple of pages. And uses it to travel from one asteroid to the other. It makes you think on what "research" are the guys at NASA spending their funds, if the suits are so easy to craft. No need for a proper seal. No worries. Solution: a lot of disappointment. That's just bullshit. These were the worst mystery stories I have ever read. You cannot expect to be taken seriously as a writer if you provide laughably bad or impossible soutions to the big questions in your book. Feb 26, Chris rated it liked it. Roberts writes wonderfully flawed sci-fi. This book is a mashup of dystopian scifi with the "duh-duh-duh" mystery short story, except we always know who did it - "Jack Glass", but the challenge is to figure out how. This is introduced to us by a narrator, presumably to let us prepare for the convoluted explanations that abound in these sorts of books and indeed a character in one story even pokes fun at this tendency in murder mysteries. The first story is great, and unfortunately the best. I Roberts writes wonderfully flawed sci-fi. I was still chuckling 20 pages into the second story and Roberts makes several clever references to the first story in the second to keep those chuckles coming. The second itself is a fairly fun take on the "murder among the help" motif, unfortunately it bogs down in trying to reveal Jack - the man behind the murder machine. Even more unfortunately, the final story is a direct continuation of the second and is even more focused on building empathy with Jack. This progression just didn't mesh well in a short book with three murder mysteries all involving the same super criminal. Aug 23, Nat rated it it was ok. This has been one of the most difficult novels to give a rating to. It has a 3-part structure and the first part is considerably different from the rest. It's hard to get your head around the change in tone from gritty prisoners to self-entitled teenagers and, for me, the ending completely ruins the whole experience. Nov 30, fromcouchtomoon rated it really liked it. Replete with both the charm and chaff of golden age fiction, Roberts crafts a series of Hard Scifi murder mysteries to stump the reader, while drawing on the tropiest tropishness of tropocity. Space bubbles! Oct 10, Charles Dee Mitchell rated it liked it Shelves: contemporary-sf. Roberts' novel is an ingenious combination of sf and old- fashioned "locked room" mysteries. I didn't understand my growing lack of engagement with the story until I remembered about half way through it that I have never cared for locked-room mysteries. But is is very well done. Readers also enjoyed. Science Fiction. Speculative Fiction. 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Jack Glass by Adam Roberts

And I'm glad it paid off so well. So, just for a What a splendid thing this book is. So, just for a second, take a look at this cover. Not only its intricately crafted stained glass drawing is very beautiful in itself, it also: 1. This cover, in summary, is just a marvel to look at. Jack Glass is Science Fiction. From the start, we know from the narrator that the murderer in each story is Jack Glass, but that's all we know. The mistery is to discover who Jack is, and why and how he committed these murders. The first story blew my mind. It was actually reminiscing of some Golden Age SF. Big Ideas SF. It's dark, intense, full of ideas and horrific, heavy moments. With the second story the writing's tone shifts completely maybe a bit too much? Here is where Adam Roberts is much heavier on the detective fiction. Yes we are still in a distant future, but it really feels like reading an Agatha Christie or Arthur C. Doyle story. And that is a good, fun, exciting thing! You can certainly feel the playfulness and the joy that Roberts was feeling while writing this book. One could say that the main difference with a Sherlock Holmes story is that this is the future, and therefore it will be much easier for the author to come up with a clever resolution and make it seem oh-so-obvious, because he knows things about this world that the reader does not know. But I would counter that argument by noting how many of the Christie or Doyle stories, although based firmly in the present reality of their author, used very similar deus-ex-machina devices to resolve everything at the end, and to make the reader feel like he had the obvious solution in front his eyes the whole time. The third story sums everything up and brings us to a slightly deeper appreciation of Jack Glass as a complex character, and of his background. Look, this is just a load of intelligent fun. It's very well written. Does it lose a little bit of momentum at some points? Maybe it does. Is it a bit too cold in its intricated plotting matrix? Again, maybe, but deep and involving character development is not the point of this book at all. It's not a "perfect" book, but it deserves 4 stars and a half from me for the fun that I had reading it. And Bacigalupi finds his own answer in the fact that Roberts is a unique, very unconventional writer, who focuses on the Big Idea for each one of his books, and then moves on to something completely different, while it's much easier - and profitable - in these days to strike gold with a more or less original concept, and then cash in on the series, and keep writing about the same characters. That might very well be true. Jan 06, M. Lachlan rated it it was amazing. OK, I'll stick a caveat on this review - Adam Roberts has been very nice about my books, which I suppose leaves me very well disposed to his. However, if I didn't like the book I would just probably lie and tell him I liked it and not bother to review it. There are mild spoilers in this review, though I've done my best to be vague. This book is a take on the classic locked room mystery. However, it is a Russian doll of a novel, locked rooms inside locked rooms inside locked rooms varying in size OK, I'll stick a caveat on this review - Adam Roberts has been very nice about my books, which I suppose leaves me very well disposed to his. However, it is a Russian doll of a novel, locked rooms inside locked rooms inside locked rooms varying in size from someone's personal consciousness to the solar system. The plot is intriguing - a series of intersecting puzzles. The beginning is basically a short story where you wonder how our hero is going to extricate himself from a situation of extreme peril. It works well and the solution is ingenious but as Jack Glass is a hero of competence, someone from that long line of protagonists who can always be relied on to 'sort it out', what keeps you reading is the question of how he will succeed rather than if he will or not. The hero isn't identified clearly in the opening but I was not in doubt of who it was past the first 20 or so pages. It's a great opening but things become more intriguing when the POV shifts to that of a rich young woman whom Jack is following. You have no idea what his purpose is but as the cover does identify him as a murderer, you have a fair guess that some people may be for the chop - perhaps the POV character included. I found this tension very effective. From the personal concern for his survival it opens up to the question of the survival of humanity. I liked Roberts's use of language. Too many genre writers - if that's what Roberts is - relegate the bare bricks of sentence construction, word choice and description to second or third place in favour of plot and authenticity of the imagined world. Roberts clearly loves language and wordplay and can write. The main characters are well imagined and I particularly liked the hyper-intelligent Diana who speaks like a valley girl but has a brain the size of a planet. The combination of great intelligence and shallowness was one I hadn't seen before. What was wrong with the novel? Not much. Diana's language falls out of Valley speak for a while but there's perhaps a plausible reason for that - it's part of her character development. Jack Glass himself doesn't really emerge as a massively full character but then he is a man of mystery and so does what it says on the tin. The novel is a take on the locked room and you don't come to such books for a hugely affecting emotional experience. Jack Glass is unlikely to leave you exultant or in tears. The locked room provides an intellectual challenge. On that Roberts delivers in spades. I've heard Roberts called a 'clever' writer in the positive and negative connotations of the word. I've actually thought that myself at times when reading his books. However, I think that does him a disservice. The writing here evokes a real sense of place, the characters are well drawn, the ideas are intriguing and he tosses away interesting and thought provoking observations like Dan Brown throws in adverbs. OK, he is 'playing with form' which sounds a little wearying, but it doesn't obscure the story and it's possible to read Jack Glass as a straight SF adventure, complete with intriguing technologies, daring escapes, plot twists and the fate of the universe in the balance. My father, who is a golden age of SF pulp fan, very much enjoyed it. The final reason I'd recommend this book is that you won't have read much like it, though paradoxically it is riffing on a tradition. Jul 08, Andrea rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi. Excellent blend of classic whodunnits and classic sci-fi. Three scenarios - prison escape, country house murder mystery and locked-room murder - form the framework for perfectly paced revelations about a fascinating 'hero', most unusual 'heroine', and consistent, believable Solar System with corrupt political system. There have been comments in other reviews that the book ended abruptly, but in my view the author has revealed answers to all the mysteries and we appropriately leave the protagonis Excellent blend of classic whodunnits and classic sci-fi. There have been comments in other reviews that the book ended abruptly, but in my view the author has revealed answers to all the mysteries and we appropriately leave the protagonists to continue their lives. All is explained, the story is done. Jan 07, Brian Clegg rated it it was amazing. On the science fiction front I have to confess that pretty well every author I like I already liked in the s. I really haven't picked up anyone new. I suspect what made this for me is that Roberts consciously was setting out to write a book that took on some of the conventions of the golden ages of science fiction and crime writing - both favourites for me. It is a new book. It is a modern book. However it encompasses the best of the old. A On the science fiction front I have to confess that pretty well every author I like I already liked in the s. And the result is absolutely wonderful. The antihero of the book Jack Glass tells us up front that he is the murderer in each of three sections of the book - but this doesn't prevent the stories which fit together almost seamlessly from working in terms of suspense and anticipation. The first section is probably the weakest and the middle the strongest, so if you make a start and struggle a little with the starkness of the first, do keep going. Roberts happens to be a professor of literature and if I say it doesn't show, I mean that in the best possible way. Although the book is very well written with some elegant turns of phrase, it doesn't get in the way of the storytelling as is the case with much 'literary' writing. If I'm going to quibble, he gets the faster than light science wrong in the third section - but I always say that SF is fiction first and science second - this really isn't too much of a worry. If you like old school science fiction and haven't found anything you can really enjoy for years you should rush out and buy Jack Glass. Apr 24, Crowinator rated it really liked it Shelves: genre-mystery , antiheroes , assassins-and-serial-killers , adult , aliens- spaceships-space , thieves-cons-liars-spies , genre-science-fiction , reads. I found this snippet of a review in my e-mail drafts folder apparently, I was typing a review in an e-mail window back in and forgot about it all these years - impressive, no? Here it is: This book hit all of my sweet spots. Noble assassin. Gory deaths. Murder mystery. Thoughtful world- building. Novel space travel. It's tricky, intellectual, and a little weird. The structure is set-up as a three-part puzzle, with a frame tale that gives y I found this snippet of a review in my e-mail drafts folder apparently, I was typing a review in an e-mail window back in and forgot about it all these years - impressive, no? The structure is set-up as a three-part puzzle, with a frame tale that gives you, up front, the solution, the name of the murderer. It's Jack Glass, of course. But how he did it, and why, is the real puzzle. Like a magic trick, all is eventually revealed. Why have I never read this author before? Dec 07, K. Charles added it Shelves: sci-fi. It felt very like the Golden Age mysteries Roberts is riffing off, in that it was three cleverly constructed puzzles and the people were basically puzzle pieces moved to fit. Basically rather cold and hard with pages of dialogue about equations and physics and some really deathly dream sequences I don't want to hear lengthy accounts of people's dreams in real life; still less do I need five pages at a time off a fictional character , and the opening story has a really grim theme of prison rape which put me off the entire exercise. So yeah, not for me. Sep 30, Jo rated it it was amazing. This is something of a concept novel, pursued with much acuity and panache. Roberts claims to be braiding together the two so-called Golden Ages of genre fiction: the Golden Age of crime fiction roughly the interwar period and the Golden Age of science fiction roughly just afterwards. The Golden Ages are here to inspire, not to invigilate — Jack Glass does contain much which would be anachronistic in either period, and overall the feel is quite contemporary. The Golden Ages are here to inspire, not invigilate — Jack Glass also contains much which would be anachronistic in either period, and overall the feel is quite contemporary. He is stubborn as stubborn as a jackglass. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. After the first arc resolves itself, the tone lightens, and the book begins to bristle with jokes, little lyrical set-pieces and charming allusions, both overt and deniable. For instance. Jack was to be stuck on the asteroid for eleven years. Why eleven? The gorgeous prize-winning cover — stained glass rocket ships — does remind me a bit of a playing card. Jacks carry a rather tricksy aura. So what is he? Jacks used to be Knaves. Posh English people called Jacks Knaves until quite recently. Maybe some still do. Jacks blend in disquietingly well with the royal party. I reckon eleven years because the value of the Jack card is between that of a Ten and a Queen. There are three main puzzles, fairly ingenious, and relying on outlandish technology and circumstances to varying degrees. Indeed, Roberts checks some very well-known boxes — the locked room, the clearly demarcated list of suspects, the missing murder weapon, the multiplicity of motives — but he has obviously read widely within the genre, and his devices and allusions are not confined to the impoverished view of the genre as a set of camp, arid formulae, uninterested in realism and hermetically isolated from psychological and socio-economic categories check out e. Roberts confesses that his emphasis was upon Golden Age crime fiction. That makes sense to me, because although this is obviously science fiction — there are lasers and so forth — is it really Golden Age? The shibboleths were probably hushed and a little garbled here. The "eat your severed penis! We do see some problem-solving of a technological nature, and Roberts does evince a judiciously respectful attitude for physics, and in particularly does not lightly transgress the speed of light. They might have spoiled the crime side of things. Perhaps Roberts is sloshing together two immiscible substances? When a character who is unused to gravity comes across a corpse, she is shocked by the way the blood presses flat against the ground, rather than hanging in the air in spheres as it normally would. This functions as a sort of clue, since gravity turns out to be a key feature of the murder. All in all, gimmicky, but I wished it would never end. May 01, Stephen rated it liked it Shelves: mystery , science-fiction , book-club. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book started off well, if rather gruesomely. I enjoyed the world, enjoyed Jack Glass and then Diana Argent when we met her. All was well up until the end of the book; it wouldn't have been my favorite book of the year, but it probably would have been a solid four. The first two sections the books is divided up into 3 distinct but interrelated stories , worked well. The third one was working well. First, Jack Glass becomes a very different character from the one we've been learning about; we This book started off well, if rather gruesomely. First, Jack Glass becomes a very different character from the one we've been learning about; we learn he loves platonically Diana. All fine and well, except, unlike the mysteries, it hasn't been set up. The reader hasn't been shown Jack transitioning from a hard edged but idealistic killer to someone willing to sacrifice his own freedom and life, and likely that of humanity, for one woman. I could have been made to buy that change, but the author didn't do the work to sell it to me. Second off, the solution to the locked room mystery doesn't work. I have to complain about science. So, FTL has been invented. Expect it's only kind-of Faster-Than- Light because the inventor has managed to change the speed of light, C--so an object using FTL doesn't actually go above the speed of light. All well in good, accepted, if unusual physics--of a sort that does more to provide a paradox than a real explanation of physical possibilities, since FTL is impossible. Here's the thing, the third story features an FTL gun, and the bullet travels backwards in time. And, I would say, cool. And since the bullet does not exceed C, but rather it remains under a much higher C, it would still be travelling forwards, rather than backwards in time. Ergo, the story is trying to have too many explanation for it's version of FTL, and the third mystery just falls apart. If it's hadn't been central to the mystery, I wouldn't have cared so much I don't mind the suggestion that C itself is being altered, because that fits in the with the speculative mood set in this book , but as it stands bad science ruins the mystery. Aug 05, Melissa Prange rated it it was amazing Shelves: scifi , fiction , mystery. The story is rock solid. That I can say. I loved the combo of mystery and science fiction. But other than that, I just have to say that I loved this novel. It was just so good. Jack Glass is a universe renowned murderer and this is his tale. Imprisoned by the Ulanovas for a crime he did not commit, Glass finds himself on a distant piece of rock with six other very dangerous men. The men quickly begin building their own power structure which Glass finds himself nearly at the bottom of. Tensions run high as the men struggle to survive on their inhospitable home. Death looms for all of them—the only question is whether they will be killed by their surroundings or by each other. Knowing that he only has so much time to escape before the Ulanovas find out the crime s he really did commit or his companions kill him, Glass begins working on his plan of escape. Jack Glass, like I said before, is a really great novel. And, beyond all that, the story is fabulous. The characters were great too in spite of you not really being able to get to know them before the final act of the book. I heartily recommend this book in general. Read it, read it, read it. Nov 26, Anna rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , scifi , crime. Adam Roberts is one of the most consistently interesting sci-fi writers that I've come across. His novels tend to contain a strikingly bizarre central concept, the implications of which are then spun out. My favourite example of this is Land of the Headless , probably the only novel you will ever read in which the main characters have been decapitated before the story begins. In 'Jack Glass', the central conceit is stylistic - the reader is told of three murder mysteries and that the eponymous an Adam Roberts is one of the most consistently interesting sci-fi writers that I've come across. In 'Jack Glass', the central conceit is stylistic - the reader is told of three murder mysteries and that the eponymous anti-hero is the murderer in each case. Knowing this, each third of the book is spent trying to work out how and why each killing took place. This caused a marked reluctance on my part to put the book down until I'd finished it, as I genuinely wanted to know the answers and felt compelled to make incorrect guesses. The interlinked murder mysteries take place within a very intriguing and well-drawn world, a few hundred years in the future. Although elements reminded me of novels by Gwyneth Jones, John Courtney Grimwood, Alaistair Reynolds, and Neal Stephenson, the overall feel of it was fresh and original. I especially appreciated the discussion of how the economics in this world operated, and how this interacted with the political situation. The range of religions mentioned was also amusingly satirical, especially when economics-as-religion came up. The politics had an unsubtle neo-Marxism about them, which I liked. I found the depth of world-building impressive, given that that the book read like a marriage of straightforward sci-fi adventure with a murder mystery sequence. The progression of events drives the narrative, dragging the characters along behind it. I would have liked to hear more from Sapho, especially in the discussion of revolution. At one point I caught a reference to her being in one place having been previously stated to be in another, then assumed this would have some key significance. It did not, so I assume it was a typo. I approve of Jack Glass himself remaining something of an enigma, though, and Diana Argent seemed like a realistically self-absorbed teenager. Overall, 'Jack Glass' was a very entertaining, clever, and beautifully imagined novel. Long may Adam Roberts continue to have such great ideas. Now I need to find a copy of By Light Alone. Jan 02, Kimberley rated it liked it Shelves: read Jack Glass is an exceptional science-fiction novel. While I often find science-fiction both tedious and difficult to read, I really enjoyed this book. The only downside to this novel was that, for me, it got progressively weaker. The book is separated into three sections. I found the characterisations absolutely stunning and, above all, interesting. The descriptions were wonderfully done a Jack Glass is an exceptional science- fiction novel. The descriptions were wonderfully done and while a certain bit made a bit queasy, I liked it. The second section introduced Diana, who acts as a main character alongside Jack. I found her an essentially weak and under-developed character. Her sister, on the other hand, I found completely enchanting. The third section was, again, a little bit predictable. And, for me, not nearly as interesting as the previous two. The end of the section was probably the most disappointing. He was mysterious, driven and a murderer with a cause. Then, all of a sudden, he confessed his love for Diana. It, to me, came completely out of the blue. I didn't think it was plausible with the rest of the story and, honestly, I just didn't see why it was necessary. I loved the world-building and Jack Glass is a great character. There were just some bits that really, really got to me. I found the end hugely disappointing and nothing seemed to measure up the gripping introduction. That, and the predictability of it and some characters that I thought could've been more developed meant that I rated this book three stars. I also have to say that I think the cover is beautiful. The colours are vibrant and it's just so beautiful that I couldn't help but pick the book up. Aug 23, Dragos Iosif rated it did not like it. This is the first case I encounter where a book's marketing "golden age SF and golden age detective" - this sounds so good that it got obsessively repeated by every reviewer; pre- chewed thoughts for everyone! Actually, they are the only good parts about it. First story: starts slow, couldn't care less about the characters, a lot of nothing happens, get the feeling that maybe the writer was payed by the number of pages. Solution: the This is the first case I encounter where a book's marketing "golden age SF and golden age detective" - this sounds so good that it got obsessively repeated by every reviewer; pre-chewed thoughts for everyone! 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