Tade Thompson, Rosewater Trilogy!

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Book 1 of the Wormwood Trilogy, Winner of the Nommo Award for Best Novel www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356511367/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_JZBNVFX70RDN0ZF8PW5Z

Anyone else reading these books?

I’ve just finished the first of the trilogy and had to keep stopping to exclaim “I love this book!”. Sci-fi, set in a future Nigeria, relatively high-brow - the writer is a doctor so there’s lots of medical science employed for breathtaking world building. Admittedly it is a mite too long and one could argue over the expansion of fantasy in the final third of the novel - but, truly, one of the most exciting and absorbing things I’ve read in decades.

Sounds like my kind of read, i'll be hunting it down later today

You must! I’ve been telling everyone about it since I finished it.

And I feel slightly ashamed of not having noticed it until now. In this interview:

www.theillustratedpage.net/2018/09/05/author-interview-tade-thompson-on-rosewater/

he explains that he first submitted it to a publisher in 2014 and it was taken up by a small press. Then republished after attracting positive reviews. At the time of the interview he hadn’t yet won the Arthur C Clarke award, which happened in 2019.

I wanted to link a review - but they all give away more than I knew when I read it, and really, uncovering the story for oneself is definitely preferable.