Rose/House

Rose/House

Arkady Martine

Book - 2025

Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic 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?" All of Basit Deniau's houses were haunted. Rose House, his final architectural triumph built in the remote Mojave desert, was perhaps the most. A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing. But a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every crevice and corner with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else altogether. That is Rose House. When Detective Maritza Smith gets a call from Rose House, she's shocked to learn that there is a dead body ...behind its sealed-up door. Everybody in town knows it's haunted. But Basit died more than a year ago, and everybody also knows that only his former protege, Dr. Selene Gisil, is permitted inside. But Selene wasn't in the country when Rose House called in the death. Who is the dead body? How did they get in? And who--or what--killed them? The answers lie within the labyrinthine halls of Rose House. But even if Martiza can get inside, there is no guarantee she will ever be able to leave ...

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Subjects
Artificial intelligence > Fiction.
Home automation > Fiction.
Haunted houses > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Intelligence artificielle > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Domotique > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Maisons hantées > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Meurtre > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Horror fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
Novellas.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Genres
Horror fiction
Fantasy fiction
Science fiction
Novellas
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
New York, NY : Tor Publishing Group 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Arkady Martine (author)
Edition
First Tordotcom edition
Item Description
"A Tordotcom book"--Title page verso.
Originally published by Subterranean Press, Burton, Michigan, 2023.
Dust jacket illustration by Michael Graziolo.
Physical Description
115 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781250387486
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Famed architect Basit Deniau may be dead, but his home, integrated with a protective artificial intelligence, lives on in this haunting novella by the Hugo award--winning author of the Teixcalaan duology (A Memory Called Empire, 2019; A Desolation Called Peace, 2021). When Rose House, as it is formally known, calls the local police to report a dead body in the house, as it is required to do by law, local law enforcement contacts archivist Selene Gisil, the only person allowed access to the house. This taut whodunit combines philosophy of architecture, ethical considerations of artificial intelligence, and very real human emotions in a compact narrative. Set amid the backdrop of the Mojave desert and China Lake, this atmospheric, eerie, and thought-provoking narrative will entice readers to finish the story in one sitting and wonder whether or not to turn off the AI devices in their own homes. Previously published by Subterranean Press in 2023, this novella was nominated for a 2024 Hugo Award.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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