Five Ingredients That Make Up Rosewater: Politics

This week five bloggers are hosting Nommo Award winning author, Tade Thompson, as we look at the Five Ingredients which make up Rosewater.  What is Rosewater I hear you ask?  Good Question! Here is the publishers blurb:

Rosewater is a town on the edge. 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.

Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. 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 realization about a horrifying future.

 

Sounds good!

The first of the five ingredients can be read at Liz Loves Books: here

That post was all about Aliens!

Next up is Vicki who brings you Technology: here

Yesterday Dave introduced characters: here

 

Today you get POLITICS – yup they trusted the “Cybernat*” with the politics post

* Cybernat = Politically Informed Scottish Voter with an internet connection.

 

Over to Tade Thompson

Politics:

That ROSEWATER is political allegory is easy to see. A city that grows around an alien dome, from scratch, starting from no local government and yet trying to understand its own destiny can be nothing but political. It starts from dirt roads and mud to asphalt and skyscrapers, forced development over a single decade, bound to be under pressure.

The dome is a resource, of healing and energy, and the control of those resources, the means of production as it were, is a steady undercurrent in the entire Wormwood Trilogy. Even the mind-reading Kaaro and his ilk are resources, used by the government to interrogate suspected insurgents, controlled by the aliens for their own purpose.

If it existed, Rosewater would be a haven for the sick, the desperate, the dying, and the pilot fish that follow these around, the loan sharks, the religious charlatans, the criminals, the peddlers of false hope.

It’s not a city I’d like to visit on my travels, but I can’t wait to see what you think of it.

Rosewater is published by Orbit Books and can be ordered here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosewater-Winner-Nommo-Wormwood-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B076H5V3Q6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540395783&sr=8-1&keywords=rose+water+tade+thompson