![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Rosewater (Thompson novel), by Tade Thompson, 2016 Rosewater (Little novel). ![]() To order a copy for £7.73 (RRP £8.99) go to or call 03. Rosewater is a flavoured water made by steeping rose petals in water. With this stellar debut, Thompson takes his rightful place in this company.Īdam Roberts’s The Real-Town Murders is published by Gollancz. Black Panther is one of the world’s all-time top-grossing movies, and from Egypt to South Africa, exciting new SF is everywhere, with writers of Nigerian heritage making a particular splash: most notably Deji Bryce Olukotun and Hugo-winner Nnedi Okorafor. ![]() The book is sharply plotted and well written, with Kaaro’s narration achieving a sort of louche, disengaged charm that throws the story’s many weirdnesses into nice relief.Ī quarter of a century ago, African science fiction was a rarity, its writers tending towards the magical and supernatural rather than the quasi-scientific. There’s a lot going on in this novel, but Thompson expertly juggles all his disparate elements – alien encounter, cyberpunk-biopunk-Afropunk thriller, zombie-shocker, an off-kilter love story and an atmospheric portrait of a futuristic Nigeria. But a mysterious sickness is killing off the sensitives one by one. ![]() The novel’s narrator, Kaaro, is an unusually gifted “sensitive” recruited from his life as a thief and scammer for an elite group of secret government agents who telepathically interrogate suspects and generally fight terrorism. ![]()
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