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***Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award*** Winner of the inaugural
Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative
fiction Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel John W.
Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel 'A
magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky 'Mind-expanding and
utterly addictive' Mark Haddon 'Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!' Ann
Leckie 'Mesmerising' M. R. Carey 'An astonishing book. I wish I'd
written it' Lauren Beukes 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.
Rosewater is the start of a vibrant and compellingly told trilogy
by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices - perfect for
fans of N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Ann Leckie's Ancillary
Justice and Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
The year is 2067. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and
full of life - some of it extra-terrestrial. The charismatic mayor,
Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to
Nigeria. But the city's alien dome is dying. Government forces
await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater's independence before
it has even begun. And in the city's quiet suburbs, a woman wakes
with no memory of who she is - with memories belonging to something
much older and much more alien. Praise and accolades for Rosewater:
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 'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian
Tchaikovsky 'Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!' Ann Leckie 'Mesmerising'
M. R. Carey 'An astonishing book. I wish I'd written it' Lauren
Beukes The Wormwood Trilogy begins with Rosewater, continues with
The Rosewater Insurrection and ends in The Rosewater Redemption.
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Five Stories High (Paperback)
K. J. Parker, Sarah Lotz, Tade Thompson, Nina Allan, Robert Shearman; Edited by …
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'They didn't see the house until they were practically on top of
it. A single building emerging fromthe dark. It didn't look
welcoming. But the front door was open. The door was wide open.'
Irongrove Lodge - a building with history; the very bricks and
grounds imbued with the stories of those who have walked these
corridors, lived in these rooms. These are the tales of an
extraordinary house, a place that straddles our world and whatever
lies beyond; a place that some are desperate to discover, and
others to flee. At one time an asylum, at another a care home,
sometimes simply a home. The residents of Irongrove Lodge will
learn that this house will change them, that the stories told here
never go away. Of all who enter, only some will leave.
Multi-award-winning editor Jonathan Oliver has brought together
five extraordinary writers to open the doors, revealing ghosts both
past and present in a collection as intriguing as it is terrifying.
Along with a linking narrative, this collection features five
novellas by Nina Allan, Tade Thompson, K. J. Parker, Robert
Shearman and Sarah Lotz.
Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't
everything its citizens were expecting . . . Mayor Jacques finds
that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to
haunt him. Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a
fight . . . And among the city's alien inhabitants, a group has
emerged who murder humans to provide bodies for their takeover . .
. Operating across spacetime, the xenosphere and international
borders, it is up to a small group of hackers and criminals to
prevent the extraterrestrial advance. The fugitive known as Bicycle
Girl, Kaaro and his old handler Femi, may be humanity's last line
of defence. The Rosewater Redemption is the powerful conclusion to
Tade Thompson's award-winning Wormwood trilogy.
'Gripping and skilfully told, with an economy and freshness of
approach that is all Tade Thompson's own. The setting is
interstellar, but it feels as real, immediate and lethal as today's
headlines' Alastair Reynolds Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade
Thompson makes a triumphant return to science fiction with this
unforgettable vision of humanity's future in the chilling emptiness
of space. The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having
travelled light years from home to bring one thousand sleeping
souls to safety among the stars. Some of the sleepers, however,
will never wake - and a profound and sinister mystery unfolds
aboard the gigantic vessel. Its skeleton crew are forced to make
decisions that will have repercussions for all of humanity's
settlements - from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to
the colony planet of Bloodroot, to other far flung systems and
indeed Earth itself. 'A gripping space opera with characters
fighting for their lives aboard a dying starship. I enjoyed it so
much and can't wait to see what Thompson does next' Martha Wells,
author of the Murderbot Diaries 'Simultaneously brutally grounded
and wildly imaginative' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of
Time 'Perfectly balances inspired universe building with both
high-octane action and emotional depth' Big Issue 'Readers looking
for a smart sci-fi mystery should snap this up' Publishers Weekly
'First-rate space opera from one of the genre's most exciting
voices' Gareth L. Powell 'Tade Thompson is a writer of enormous
heart and talent. Just brilliant' Dave Hutchinson
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Jackdaw (Hardcover, Main)
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'A wild, darkly comic nightmare set on the borderlines of
creativity, imagination and madness.' Guardian 'Thompson's prose,
contaminated by Bacon's unflinching view of the human animal, makes
for vital, unsettling reading' - Will Maclean, author of The
Apparition Phase In this shocking, and at times darkly comic,
novel, a psychiatrist hired to write a short piece on Francis Bacon
becomes obsessed with the artist, his life, and the characters who
surrounded him. As he becomes consumed with the need to understand
Bacon, and to create his own art, his grip on reality becomes
increasingly tenuous, and he is haunted by disturbing figures. This
short, bold piece of fiction, explores how the passion needed to
create art can also destroy the artist.
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Rosewater (Paperback)
Tade Thompson
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The rule is simple: don't bleed. For as long as Molly Southbourne
can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds,
another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on
her destruction. Molly's parents trained her well. She knows every
way to kill herself, she knows how to butcher mollys for easy
disposal, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be
hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the
mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of
blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks
just like her?
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AfroSFv2 (Paperback)
Tade Thompson, Nick Wood; Edited by Ivor Hartmann
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Making Wolf (Paperback)
Tade Thompson
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'Shocking and perceptive' Guardian 'It was easy to stay up well
past lights out to read just one more chapter - and then one
more...' James Oswald 'Engaging' Sunday Times LONGLISTED FOR THE
CWA GOLD DAGGER Meet Weston Kogi, a London supermarket store
detective. He returns home to his West African home country for his
aunt's funeral. He sees his family, his ex-girlfriend Nana, his old
school mate Church. Food is good, beer is plentiful, and telling
people he works as a homicide detective seems like harmless
hyperbole, until he wakes up in hell. He is kidnapped and forced by
two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local
hero, Papa Busi. The solution may tip a country on the brink into
civil war. Making Wolf is the outrageous, frightening, violent and
sometimes surreal homecoming experience of a lifetime. Praise for
Tade Thompson: 'Breathtaking landscapes and intoxicating food and
drink . . . endemic corruption, sultry sexuality and casual,
slapdash violence . . . A rock-and-roll edge' The Financial Times
'Brutal, uncompromising and thought-provoking . . . superb' M. W.
Craven 'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky 'Smart.
Gripping. Fabulous!' Ann Leckie 'Mesmerising' M. R. Carey
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