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Rosewater
- The Wormwood Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Bayo Gbadamosi
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2019
Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fiction
Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel 2019
John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers.
Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying future.
Critic reviews
"A magnificent tour de force." (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
"Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" (Ann Leckie)
"Mesmerising" (M. R. Carey)
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- Akor O.
- 25-10-22
Amazingly paced and beautifully delivered
A story set in Nigeria which takes into consideration the geography, culture and habits while presenting a refreshingly good sci-fi story.
Very good.
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- Jenny
- 08-01-19
Absolute BRILLIANCE
This is a weird and wonderful novel, I was absolutely enchanted from beginning to end. The ideas are incredible, magical and very original. Set in Nigeria, for a change, this is sci fi of the highest order: great premise (alien dome around which a city has grown), incredible characters - all of them, and a plot that twists and turns and leaves you impatient for Book 2. I can't wait!
Highly and thoroughly recommended.
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- paul sparks
- 12-01-19
Refreshingly intriguing and interesting
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, the story was both interesting and enthralling, I am looking forward to the next instalment in this trilogy
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- Strayficshion
- 02-12-19
Refreshingly non-eurocentric African sci-fantasy
I may reserve a review for the end of the third book, and that in itself should give a hint as to my opinion. At this stage, my key thoughts about this relate to its inventiveness, the fact that it is refreshingly non-eurocentric - a quality made even more enjoyable by Bayo Gbadamosi's narration, and its ability to deliver an essentially ordinary main character who somehow is also quite extraordinary.
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- Michela
- 07-06-20
Amazing story, perfect interpretation
This novel keeps adding surprises and amazing twists and new key-characters, as it jumps back and forth and in between the time line of the story,. We see it all through the first person narrator, the main character, Karu, a young man who's unwillingly involved in hugely important, world-saving matters because of his special abilities. This story has it all: mind reading and all kinds of other special abilities, sci-fi elements, including different types of aliens, sociopolitical commentary on past, present and future (the story is set in Nigeria, in our future), women as key characters choosing their own destiny and saving Karu and the world (a lot), security procedures against "network" attacks, and so much more. The narrator is brilliant. My only regret is that I haven't read this sooner.
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- Marika Blackham
- 18-04-20
ethereal and abstract
struggled to concentrate for much of this. I admire the outline and ideas behind the story, and was abstract in a niel gaiman type way but was not drawn in by the protagonist
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- Joseph Elliott-Coleman
- 06-10-19
Alien invasion from a Nigerian perspective.
Tade Thompson's "Rosewater" is easily the most subversive and frightening alien invasion novel since either Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" trilogy or H. G. Wells "War of the worlds". And Bayo Gbadamosi sells us Tade's World with his beautiful Nigerian accent.
Read it. Now.
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- Tony Swinton
- 29-09-18
I absolutely loved this book!
Without wanting to give away spoilers, Tade Thompson has created a unique world and transports you to a believable world where the storyline was gripping holding the listeners interest throughout with a good narrator who is able to cope with place names and accents
A joy to listen to If you are looking for something new download this book
I hope to see more books by Tade Thompson on audio soon
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- Oma
- 22-07-19
Excellent
A truly excellent and thought through science fiction with an eye on the world today. Can get a little confusing if you don't pay attention since the action and flashbacks move at a clip but well worth it.
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- russ
- 06-06-19
ok, got a bit lost because stop & starting
hmmm. it's ok, I liked it being Nigerian, and ok reading from the narrator, but I kept getting lost due to the various times it is set in. this is due to me stopping and starting with audible so less of a fault of the book, I just kept forgetting what year I was in.
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