Tade Thompson

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Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw, shorts, screenplays.

Arthur C. Clarke Award winner.
Hugo nominated.

Agent: Alex Cochran (books); Luke Speed (screen-UK); Charlie Ferarro (screen US)

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Henry Fuseli and Charles Burns

Brainstorming a one-page comic...

Nick Drnaso.

New boxing gloves day. They feel like they're suffocating my hands, which is normal. I need to punch the stiffness out.

And there's an extract of Rosewater here. The copy is incorrect. Rosewater is not my debut novel. www.newscientist.com/article/2438...

Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewaterwww.newscientist.com In this tantalising extract from Tade Thompson’s debut Rosewater, we meet Kaaro and learn about the psychic powers he has had since an alien invasion

Sweet Galactus, I hate this picture. Anyway, Rosewater is the New Scientist Book Club pick. I carry on about it here.

Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasionwww.newscientist.com Tade Thompson, author of sci-fi novel Rosewater, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on subverting the expectations of invasion narratives and writing about people not tech

Skylight...

"How long are you willing to work on something, to ensure that every bit of it gets infused with some trace of your radical preference?" - George Saunders

"There is something essentially ridiculous about critics" - Randall Jarrell, Literary Critic and author

Should probably go to bed

Ho-kay...election's over. The country's broken. Time to rebuild.

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This made me laugh.

I suppose it's whitesplaining Friday. What is it about some white editors who are so confident in their wrongness? Motherfucker, I don't care if you did a module on Black history in university. This is my specialist subject from birth. Stet off, asshole.

Friday night sketching...

"Burke, we're in a metaphor. Pay no attention to the Viet Nam bit for the moment. It's a fight of two mamas for their babies. You're backing the wrong mama, Burke. For a percentage. It's not too late to return to the fold, Burke. Mama will take you back, Burke. Or we'll nuke your body from orbit."

Graphic design is an important skill. Knowing what humans stare at on a page is important.

Because I am obviously American, I was handed this by a very nice Swiss woman. We are, apparently, well known for our depravity. "Je suis flatte'!"

June: " I--I can't! Where's the trigger on this fucking thing? Who designed it?"

I'm glad the Conservatives are out. To me, Labour still seems somewhat wonky in its current incarnation. Let's see what happens.

It is almost noon, and I have done no admin.

Admin day. Boo. Hiss.

Spider-man is stealing your what?!

Detail from Frazetta's cover to Michael Moorcock's The Silver Warriors. What I love is the hair stuck to the sword with static electricity (I think). Works well as a directional device.

Hey, kids! Comics!

There are people who write in a genre, and then there's Helen Oyeyemi, who is a genre unto herself.

So. Peter and Brian are brand new temporary roommates. Brian sees Spider-man leave and assumes he's kidnapped Peter, inspite of the fact that he's not carrying Peter. Spider-man sees Captain Britain, blond as the guy in his room, but doesn't think it's his blond, very British roommate. Dude.

We always wear Union Flag pins, so you can tell we're British. Also, where is Thames University?

Yeet these motherfuckers into the heliosphere and yeet them deeper.

You and I remember Jajpur very differently.

I have done a democracy.

There's something perverse about having no choice but to vote a party whose leader (and minions) spouts what you don't believe in. This isn't really a choice at all. It's a least-worst situation and I hate it.