![]() ![]() No one goes in or out of the dome but once a year the dome opens and those bathed in its light are healed or, if dead, brought back to some form of zombie-like half life. ![]() Since that time America has “gone dark” – nothing and nobody comes in or out and no one knows is this is because aliens have taken over or whether America has quarantined itself against invasion or infection. The first contact occurred back in 2012 in London and brought with it a seeding of the atmosphere with a fungus that has led to a range of powers in certain individuals. The dome was not the first arrival of aliens, but appears to be the most permanent. Rosewater sits in the middle of Nigeria, a few hours drive from the capital Lagos. Kaaro lives in the town of Rosewater, a donut shaped metropolis, only a few years from being a shanty town, that has grown up surrounding a giant alien dome. But he makes the journey worthwhile and the pay-off sticks hard. ![]() Tade Thompson takes his time, delivering a multi-dimensional mosaic that reveals as much as it hides. Rosewa ter is a first contact story, an alien encounter story, but it takes a while to get there, a story about humans with mutant-style powers, at times a zombie story. ![]()
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