As Thompson portrays this world, politics and power relationships seep into the deepest recesses of the mind, whether human or alien. It’s an incredible experience both for its driving action and its probing – through both character and action – of many ideas about colonialism, memory, identity and rebellion. There’s no middle volume problem in this trilogy. The theme of colonization sounds loudly from the outset, and Thompson rings many changes on the idea through this more action-oriented story. In Rosewater Insurrection Thompson vastly expands the narrative from primarily a single character’s viewpoint to embrace a half dozen other figures, including several of the alien beings behind Wormwood. Much of Rosewater is told through the viewpoint of Kaaro, a human “sensitive” who can interpret what is going on in the xenosphere. It’s the grand project of survival for a species that has destroyed its home planet: Colonizing the minds of Earth’s inhabitants. The real purpose of Wormwood is to spread microscopic alien cells (the xenosphere) around the world, gradually infiltrating humans to turn them into hosts for alien minds. The entity, known as a footholder, extends a dome around itself and offers both healing influence and electricity, encouraging humans to build the city of Rosewater around it. As we learned in Rosewater, the alien entity known as Wormwood crashed to earth in London in 2012, then worked through the Earth’s crust before surfacing in Nigeria in the 2050s.
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