Like the Rosewater trilogy, it’s a book brimming with big ideas, imaginative flair, and memorable characters and just as Thompson did with alien invasions, the novel also puts a new spin on one of the oldest sub-genres: the locked-room mystery.
I was therefore very excited to pick up Thompson’s latest novel, Far from the Light of Heaven. It was a pleasure, back in 2019, to review books two and three of the Rosewater trilogy for Locus.It’s an incredibly entertaining and award-winning series, set in Nigeria, that brilliantly reframed the alien invasion narrative as an expression of neocolonialism. If you’ve been reading my column for the last three years (has it really been that long?), you’ll know that, along with Lavie Tidhar, Tade Thompson is one of my favourite contemporary writers.
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