The Wormwood Trilogy begins with Rosewater, continues with The Rosewater Insurrection and ends in The Rosewater Redemption. ‘A magnificent tour de force’ Adrian Tchaikovsky

Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel Wormwood is trapped under the dome of Utopicity, and the city of Rosewater has sprung up around it. Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel 2019 Tade Thompson’s Rosewater is set in a near future Nigeria in which an alien incursion has occurred, in the form of Wormwood, which has burrowed under the ground and released fungi-like spores into Earth’s atmosphere. Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa’s first award for speculative fiction Clarke Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the U.K. One summer, I went to the beach boardwalk with my college roommate. His debut novel, Rosewater, won both the Nommo Award and the Arthur C. WHEN FINISHING Tade Thompson’s Rosewater, I had a visceral flashback. Government forces await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater’s independence before it has even begun.Īnd in the city’s quiet suburbs, a woman wakes with no memory of who she is – with memories belonging to something much older and much more alien. British author and psychiatrist Tade Thompson’s stories and shorts have been critically acclaimed worldwide. The charismatic mayor, Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to Nigeria. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and full of life – some of it extra-terrestrial.

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