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City in Time: Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Redemption

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Tade Thompson begins Rosewater Redemption, the concluding volume of his Wormwood trilogy, with a kind of fugue, an almost musical prelude in which the major characters re-enter the story, each changed by what has gone before. We see Rosewater in all its multiplicity, through the eyes of each character, as a city in time, experienced […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, alternative selves, city, consciousness, memory, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, time

Alien Cells in Mind: Rosewater by Tade Thompson

By John Folk-Williams

Alien Cells in Mind Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson, a psychiatrist who is also a prolific writer, has created an original interpretation of a classic science fiction theme in his Rosewater, the opening novel in the Wormwood trilogy – that of first contact on earth as alien cells enter human minds across the world. An alien mass hits the earth in Hyde […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, alternative selves, consciousness, first contact, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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