TY - ABST T1 - “Down and Out in Exile Park” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tade Thompson ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.

JF - Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-26254-443-6 U2 -

Illus. Sean Bodley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosewater Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title. 

PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY N1 -

Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Bicycle Girl" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tade Thompson KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went. 

JF - Expanded Horizons VL - no. 40 UR - http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=3234 U5 -

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