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Rosewater: Book 1 of the Wormwood Trilogy, Winner of the Nommo Award for Best Novel

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Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel - Africa's first award for speculative fiction

John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel

'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky

'Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!' Ann Leckie

'Mesmerising' M. R. Carey

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.

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Praise for Rosewater

  • A magnificent tour de force, skilfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas

  • Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!

  • Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no-one

  • A fiercely weird, breathtaking biopunk tale of alien invasion, Rosewater is ambitious and smart and very, very cool

  • One of the most imaginative alien invasion scenarios I have come across

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Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson

TADE THOMPSON is the author of the Rosewater novels, the Molly Southbourne books, and Making Wolf. He has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, the Prix Julia-Verlange and been a finalist for the John W. Campbell award, the Locus awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Hugo Awards among others. He lives and works on the south coast of England.

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