by Adam Roberts
“A quantity of blood is spilled in this story, I’m sorry to say; and a good many people die; and there is some politics too. There is danger and fear. Accordingly I have told his tale in the form of a murder mystery; or to be more precise (and at all costs we must be precise) three, connected murder...
This book vexed me. The first section (of three) I was absolutely gripped. The set-up was intriguing and I couldn't put it down. And then the damnedest thing happened - the book switched from being a dark and gritty sci-fi into a quaint, somewhat cozy, mystery. Even the POV character shifted, in thi...
Jack Glass is a murderer. More precisely ("and at all costs we must be precise"), he's a murderer in space. His name, a pseudonym, comes from his preferred weapon: a dagger with a glass blade, impossible to detect with the usual weapon detectors of his dystopian world. An unspecified number of y...
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