Vanessa Jae

Aug 28, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Vanessa Jae |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu

In Arkady Martine’s Rose/House, vulturehood stands in contrast to personhood. It is an exploitive act of taking from the vulnerable, and the vulnerable are the first to have their agency—and thus their personhood—taken from them. Martine introduces the term “vulturehood” early on in the book, in connection with Basit Deniau, the architect of a mansion located in the Mojave Desert by China Lake, California, known as Rose House.