![]() ![]() The hapless “reanimate” zombies, which mostly just wandered about aimlessly in the first novel, can now be organized into attack teams (if you’ve got the right connection to the xenosphere, the atmospheric motes that permit some sensitives to read and manipulate minds). ![]() While the aliens seemed remote and enigmatic for most of the first novel, here they act more like traditional body snatchers, no longer coy about their intentions, and we learn about how their Krypton-like dying home planet (they call it Home, and themselves Homians) has sent them house hunting. It’s also more traditional in how it employs familiar SF tropes and visuals. Those readers might find The Rosewater Insurrection, the second novel in the Wormwood trilogy, a bit more comfortable, with its more linear chronology – set mostly in the year after the main action of Rosewater – and multiple viewpoints familiar from a whole generation of disaster tales. ![]() Tade Thompson’s wildly original first novel Rosewater, with its political savvy, its problematic main character, its inventive notion of alien contact, and its colorful setting of the improvised city of Rosewater – which grew up around an alien dome near Lagos, Nigeria – also seemed to challenge some readers with its shifting timelines and questions of narrative reliability. ![]() The Rosewater Insurrection, Tade Thompson ( Orbit 978-8-3, $15.99, 378pp, tp) March 2019. ![]()
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