6/29/2023 0 Comments Rosewater sci fi![]() ![]() Hannibal Lecter was also reprehensible, but at least he was interesting. I found him to be a wholly reprehensible character, which is not always a deal-breaker. Does that arm’s length absolve him of moral culpability? Not for me. He reads their minds and passes the information on to the interrogators, beaters and electricians. Kaaro is a morally ambiguous main character and first-person narrator who works as a government agent assisting in the torture of political opponents. ![]() The analogy between a fungal rhizome and a psychic internet is fantastic, another very creative setup for a story. ![]() ![]() The hero, Kaaro, is a sensitive, but he often misses just plain old relationships with people and does not want to read their mind, so he turns of his psychic powers by rubbing on an antifungal cream. Certain humans, the “sensitives” can use the fungus as a kind of psychic network. The dome is, or houses an extraterrestrial that emanates fungus spores that fill the air. That’s a fantastically creative setup for a story, and there’s a lot of promise in this sci-fi-speculative novel. Unlike other healing places like Lourdes, however, the dome sometimes gets it wrong and the supplicant ends up with an extra arm or leg, or possibly one less than before. In the center of town is a slowly rising dome, sealed off from the ring-town except once a year when a portal opens and magic fairy dust comes out that heals the sick. Rosewater is a doughnut-shaped town north of Lagos in the year 2066. ![]()
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