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to: navigation, search First edition cover Author Charles Stross
Cover artist Rita Frangie Country United Kingdom Language
English Genre Science Fiction Publisher Orbit (UK), Ace (US)
Publication date June 2006 Media type Print (Hardcover &
Paperback Pages 352 pp ISBN 0-441-01403-8 OCLC 63692719 813/.6
22 LC Class PR6119.T79 G57 2006  Glasshouse is a science fiction
novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006.
The novel is set in the twenty seventh century aboard a
spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Robin, the protagonist,
has recently had his memory erased. He agrees to take part in an
experiment, during which he is placed inside a model of a late
twentieth/early twenty-first century Euroamerican society. Robin
is given a new identity and body, specifically that of a woman
named "Reeve". Major themes of this novel are identity, gender
determinism, self-image- and conformity. Contrary to popular
belief, it is not a sequel