The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Tade Thompson’s Rosewater, a thrilling sci-fi novel that imagines Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion. This week, our culture editor Alison Flood caught up with the award-winning novelist to discuss the inspirations behind his writing. They delved into his curiosity about CIA psi experiments, why formerly colonised countries are best equipped to handle an alien invasion, and the dream that inspired the novel’s infamous “meat temple” scene.
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