Stories of alien invasion are rarely told from the perspective of the formerly colonised – this series set in a future Nigeria expands the SF genre
The Rosewater Redemption is the third volume in the Wormwood trilogy by Nigerian-British author Tade Thompson. It concludes a major new work of science fiction, one that mixes and matches familiar tropes with an unfamiliar setting, and in so doing changes their significance.
The first volume, Rosewater, won the Arthur C Clarke award earlier this year and is set in a mid-2060s Nigeria. Fifty years earlier, a gigantic alien lifeform dubbed Wormwood crashed into London and sank into the ground. Moving through the Earth’s crust, Wormwood re-emerged in Nigeria, where it unleashed alien animals and bacteria, but also began healing illness and injury. The city that sprang up around this healing spring called itself Rosewater.
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