Rose/house by Arkady Martine

Rose/house

Arkady Martine

Tor/Forge · Print & ebook · March 11, 2025

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Who it’s for
A taut gothic mystery makes architecture itself the unsettling presence at the heart of the investigation.
Themes
Nonhuman artificial intelligence, Haunted architecture, Death investigation
Genres
Sci-Fi Crime, Androids & AI Science Fiction, Gothic Romance

About this book

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.

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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 ... Also by Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire A Desolation Called Peace

A House That Thinks

A taut gothic mystery makes architecture itself the unsettling presence at the heart of the investigation.

Come here for

  • Science fiction with a haunted-house sensibility
  • A detective mystery tangled with artificial intelligence

Expect

  • A tense, atmospheric thriller
  • Questions that lead deeper into Rose House’s labyrinthine halls

Where it sits

Sci-Fi Crime84%
Androids & AI Science Fiction54%
Gothic Romance35%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Gothic Romance
  • Sci-Fi Crime
  • Tech Thrillers
Authors
Arkady Martine
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Published
March 11, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Nonhuman artificial intelligence · Haunted architecture · Death investigation
Reading lane
Gothic Romance