Synopsis
Rose/House is a chilling gothic sci-fi thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.
‘I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?’
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every...
Details
13 March 2025128 pages
9781035065653Imprint: Tor
Reviews
An exquisitely creepy exploration of the boundaries of life, death, the real and the artificialAdrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time series
Martine’s soaring, crystalline prose evokes Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if designed by Frank Gehry. She builds a twisted cathedral of story and fills every inch with equal parts beauty and a creeping, inescapable sense of wrongness. Readers will be flooredPublishers Weekly, Starred Review
[The Haunting of Hill House is] a hard act to riff on without simply producing a lesser version, and yet Rose/House manages it dramatically and delightfullyReactor
Tight and unsettling . . . a story that’s stylish, discomforting and strangely believable . . . Rose/House is a freaky love letter to architecture, weird and otherwiseJake Casella Brookins, Locus
