Rose/House

<p><b>A taut, uncanny sci-fi thriller where </b> <b>AI meets <i>The Haunting of Hill House, </i>from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author</b> <b>of <i>A Memory Called Empire.</i></b><br><br><b>‘Exquisitely creepy<i>’ </i></b><b>– Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time series</b><br><br><b><i>‘I’m a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?’</i></b><br><br>Architect Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.<br><br>A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing; a house that <i>is</i> an artificial intelligence, infused in every load-bearing beam and fine marble tile with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else altogether. But now Deniau’s been dead a year, and his masterpiece, Rose House, is locked up tight.<br><br>Dr Selene Gisil, a former protégé, is the sole person permitted, once a year, to enter Rose House. But now, there is a dead person inside. It is not Deniau, and Rose House refuses to speak.<br><br>Dr Gisil can enter, but she wasn't there when Rose House called in the death. Yet someone was. Someone died.<br><br>And someone, or something, may be there still . . .<br><br><b>‘A sharp, clever blend of science fictional gothic and crime’ – </b><b><i>The Guardian</i></b></p>