![]() ![]() In his trilogy’s Nommo Award–winning first book, Rosewater (2016), Thompson repeatedly suggests that human colonization prepares human reactions to alien invasion. Stacy Alaimo, a researcher and professor of environmental humanities, has suggested that in order “to understand the future, we need to understand the past, not just as context, but as the seeds of catastrophe.” In the Wormwood Trilogy’s concluding two novels, The Rosewater Insurrection (2019) and The Rosewater Redemption (2019), the seeds of colonial invasion, alien supposition, and systemic control planted in readers’ minds during the first novel sprout into deadly blooms. Then again, when a story engages the planetary disaster of the Anthropocene and histories of colonization, perhaps readers shouldn’t be able to shrug off a sense of bitterness. ![]() The science fiction Wormwood Trilogy by British author Tade Thompson is aptly named - its engaging arc contains a bitter undercurrent that I find difficult to fully shake from my mind. It will refuse to leave your tongue even after you try to chase it away with sweeter flavors. ![]() The plant is enticing to smell and adamantly bitter to taste. THE WORMWOOD PLANT is ornamental and used as an ingredient in absinthe. ![]()
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