Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novellas - Rose/House By Arkady Martine

Interested in reading a novella that was a finalist for the 2024 Locus Awards? Novellas are books under 175 pages.

A story that’s stylish, discomforting, and strangely believable. Rose/House is a freaky love letter to architecture, weird and otherwise.

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 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. But the architect died more than a year ago, and everybody also knows that only his former protege is permitted inside. But the protege 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? Even if the detective can get inside, there is no guarantee she will ever be able to leave...