What is "glasshouse"

Glasshouse \Glass"house`\, n. A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

n. 1 A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial). 2 A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.

n. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions [syn: greenhouse, nursery]

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 to his 2005 novel Accelerando, although Stross has stated that the two novels are not obviously incompatible. Glasshouse won the Prometheus Award for 2007, and was nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards in 2007.

Glasshouse, or the Glasshouse, was historically the term for a military prison in the British Army, although the expression is now seldom used within the military itself. The first military prisons were established in 1844. The term Glasshouse originated at the military prison at Aldershot, which had a glazed roof. Over time, the sobriquet came to be applied to all British Army prisons. This prison, called the Detention Barracks, had begun as several barracks in 1856, before being replaced by a single, large building, modelled on civilian prisons, in 1870. This building was destroyed by fire in a riot of 1946.

Glasshouses gained a reputation for brutality, as depicted in Allan Campbell McLean's novel, The Glass House and the Sean Connery film, The Hill. Today, the British Army has only one remaining prison, the Military Corrective Training Centre at Colchester. It has a special unit for convicts who are being transferred to HM Prison Service to serve their sentences, which is for anyone serving a sentence over three months.

The Glasshouse at Colchester has been described in the ITV Anglia TV-documentary series, "The Real Red Caps", (2003).

"Glasshouse" is a 1975 R&B single by The Temptations. It was written by Motown songwriting team Charlemagne, which consisted of James Carmichael, Ronald Miller and Kathy Wakefield. The song appeared on the album A Song for You. All five Temptations alternate lead vocals, singing about how people who live in glasshouses "shouldn't throw no stones". It was the last top forty hit for The Temptations, going to number thirty-seven pop and number nine on the R&B charts.