The Rosewater Redemption is the powerful conclusion to the award-winning Wormdwood trilogy, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.
Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting.
The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends...
Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity's last line of defense.
Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy:
"Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" --Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice
"Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." --M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts
"A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." --Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time
Show moreThe Rosewater Redemption is the powerful conclusion to the award-winning Wormdwood trilogy, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.
Life in the newly independent city-state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting.
The Mayor finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him. Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight. And the city's alien inhabitants are threatening mass murder for their own sinister ends...
Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere, and international borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to prevent the extra-terrestrial advance. The fugitive known as Bicycle Girl, Kaaro, and his former handler Femi may be humanity's last line of defense.
Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy:
"Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" --Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice
"Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." --M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts
"A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." --Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time
Show moreTade Thompson is the author of Rosewater, a John W. Campbell Award finalist and winner of the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2017 Nommo Award for African speculative fiction. Born in London to Yoruba parents, he lives and works on the south coast of England as an emergency room psychiatrist.
"Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!"--Ann Leckie, award winning-author of
Ancillary Justice on Rosewater
"A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of
original and disturbing ideas."--Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C.
Clarke Award winning author of Children of Time on Rosewater
"A sharply satirical, ingenious thriller about an alien invasion
that's disturbing familiar. Tade Thompson has built a fascinating
world that will suck you in and keep you guessing. This book will
eat you alive, and you'll like it."--Annalee Newitz, author of
Autonomous on Rosewater
"Compellingly strange yet accessible... a character-driven, morally
grey tale of hope and potential redemption."--Publishers Weekly
(starred review) on Rosewater
"Deeply imagined characters and vibrant, startling imagery... An
author to watch."--B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog on Rosewater
"Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here,
but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one."--M. R. Carey,
bestselling author of The Girl with all the Gifts on Rosewater
"One of the most imaginative alien invasion scenarios I have come
across."--Aliette de Bodard, Nebula and BSFA award-winning author,
on Rosewater
"Original, entertaining, and food for thought. Tade Thompson is an
exciting new voice in our field and I can't wait to read more of
his work."--Pat Cadigan on Rosewater
"Part thriller, part mystery and part phantasmagoric journey across
a strange yet not-too-distant future, and reminiscent at times of
both Roger Zelazny and Nnedi Okorafor, Rosewater is the hardboiled,
Nigerian alien invasion story you always wanted."--Lavie Tidhar,
award winning author of Central Station on Rosewater
"A fiercely weird, breathtaking biopunk tale of alien invasion,
Rosewater is ambitious and smart and very, very cool."--Tasha Suri,
author of Empire of Sand on Rosewater
"A fitting end to this trilogy, which, in even its trippiest
moments, maintains a plausibility that others in this subgenre
often lack."--Kirkus (starred review)
"A strange and unsettling story of psychics, conspiracy, and alien
invasion unlike anything I've read before. Masterfully constructed,
brimming with ideas and slowly unfolding mystery, Rosewater hurt my
brain in the best of ways."--Fonda Lee, World Fantasy Award winning
author of Jade City on Rosewater
"As strange, vivid and intricate as the alien biosphere at its
heart, Rosewater is a fabulous book and Tade Thompson is a writer
of enormous heart and talent. Just brilliant."--Dave Hutchinson on
Rosewater
"Inventive aliens and realistic-feeling invasion... keen
observations of how easily people ignore and accept what should be
terrifying... intriguing characters (many of them women) who have
lives of their own beyond the pages... fascinating."--Strange
Horizons on Rosewater
"Perfect for fans of William Gibson's Neuromancer, this twisty,
captivating page-turner explores the fragility of the mind and how
memory constructs identity."--BookPage on Rosewater
"The concluding volume of Tade Thompson enormously inventive
trilogy of humanity's first contact with aliens goes for
broke."--B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
"This thrilling, ambitious novel offers a deftly woven and incisive
blend of science fiction, psychology, action, and mystery. Highly
recommended."--Kate Elliott, author of Black Wolves on
Rosewater
"Thompson's genius in displacing his tale of successive
xenobiological attacks from the West onto the developing world is
matched by his breathtakingly smart prose.... Deeply
engrossing."--The Seattle Review of Books on Rosewater
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