
The task of the second novel in a trilogy is an unenviable one. The Rosewater Insurrection (2019) now takes forward the story. It also introduced onto the stage a memorable cast of characters-from government agents to “sensitives” who had special access to the alien-created xenosphere, allowing them telepathic abilities and a (limited) look into the future-as they all struggled to come to terms with the alien presence in their midst. Set in mid-twenty-first century Nigeria this, the first book of the Wormwood Trilogy, introduced the multiform alien Wormwood, with its magical healing and restorative powers, the dome within which it housed itself, and the city of Rosewater that sprung up around it. In Rosewater (2016), Tade Thompson initiated us into the world of Wormwood.
