Science Fiction Weekly interview with Stross, September 2003 Plot introduction I held it off for all of two weeks or so, until 8 April, when the compulsion to start writing became too strong to resist, and the first draft emerged in just three weeks of obsessive 12-hour days. in the afternoon of 23 March 2003, while I was at the pub nattering with a friend. Glasshouse appeared, almost fully formed, in my head between 2:30 p.m. Glasshouse won the Prometheus Award for 2007, and was nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards in 2007. Contrary to popular belief, it is not a sequel to his 2005 novel Accelerando, although Stross has stated that the two novels are not obviously incompatible. Major themes of this novel are identity, gender determinism, self-image and conformity. Robin is given a new identity and body, specifically that of a woman named "Reeve". 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, the protagonist, has recently had his memory erased. The novel is set in the twenty-seventh century aboard a spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006.
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