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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

SciFiMonth: Colonizing the Mind in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Insurrection

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

With #SciFiMonth getting underway, and a certain election holding our fates in the balance, my reading has turned to more political scifi themes, or maybe I’m just more attuned than ever to that dimension of so many recent books. I’m in the midst of Tade Thompson’s Wormwood trilogy and find it more engrossing with every […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: Africanfuturism, alien minds, colonialism, memory, mind, Rosewater, Tade Thompson, Wormwood

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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