The books have been shortlisted and won several literary awards like making the final list for the 2020 Best Series in the Hugo Awards and Rosewater winning the Arthur C Clark award for its “ winning combination of science fictional invention and sly wit“… The Wormwood Series There’s something you do not read everyday. The Wormwood series is not such a tale it’s a futuristic, science fiction fantasy that will require you to suspend disbelief and conjure up from your imagination to immerse yourself in the world of Rosewater at the frontier of a space invasion, yes, aliens in Africa. Most African literature reads like fictional biographies, literary works firmly grounded in reality that they feel like a story that could have happened to you or someone you know, relatable and familiar. Even if I had not had the word at the tip of my thoughts I would have read the books since I trust Mable’s taste in literature because apparently my love for Speculative African Fantasy is infectious. The word wormwood was rattling about in my head when the book series The Wormwood Trilogy landed on the lap of my awareness, courtesy of Mable.
A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter.” Rev 8:10–11 “The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. Artemisia Annua is also known as wormwood, due to its bitter taste, a name which has roots in the New Testament book of Revelations: The Wormwood Trilogy begins with Rosewater, continues with The Rosewater Insurrection and ends in The Rosewater Redemption.Sometimes life is littered with crazy coincidences… I was reading up on Madagascar’s “ miracle cure” for the coronavirus derived from the Artemisia Annua plant. 'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel 2019 Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fiction Government forces await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater's independence before it has even begun.Īnd 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. The charismatic mayor, Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to Nigeria. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and full of life - some of it extra-terrestrial.
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