Their heads are always full of mushy rhetoric, faulty logic and grim fucking resolve. For instance, when Kaaro senses a suicide bomber in a nearby crowd, he thinks: “I hate suicide bombers.

Perhaps Thompson’s most impressive feat is his use of Kaaro’s psychic powers to assert unprovable facts. Thompson’s rendering of the “xenosphere,” a theoretical dimension into which psychic characters can project their consciousnesses, is nothing short of brilliant. Thompson’s debut novel brims with inventive and seamless worldbuilding, eloquent prose, a strong cast of powerful black characters, and cutting social commentary on the current geopolitical shift toward authoritarianism and post-colonial trauma. As Kaaro digs deeper and deeper into the source of the sensitives’ illness, his troubled past and riveting present come together to paint the picture of a horrifying future. Just as Kaaro meets a woman who could possibly make him happy, sensitives like him begin to get sick and die. Kaaro, a government security officer who was a criminal before becoming a soldier, is a “sensitive,” a rare breed of human endowed with psychic powers.

It’s 2066, and in Nigeria, the town of Rosewater has grown up around a strange dome that heals whomever stands beneath it. 31.When a detective with psychic powers begins to investigate a mysterious sickness plaguing those like him, he uncovers sinister truths that may very well call into question the survival of the human race. 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. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. 9780356511368 Rosewater 31.1000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel - Africa's first award for speculative fiction 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. Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel - Africa's first award for speculative fiction 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 glimp. 'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel

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