Tade Thompson

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* *The Murders of Molly Southbourne*
 Notable awards | * Arthur C. Clarke Award
* Nommo Award

 **Tade Thompson** is a British-born Nigerian psychiatrist best known for his science fiction novels.

## Life and career

Thompson was born in London to Yoruba parents. His family left the United Kingdom for Nigeria in 1976, when Thompson was seven. He grew up in Nigeria, where he studied medicine and social anthropology. He went on to specialise in psychiatry. He returned to the UK in 1998, where he has remained except for a year spent working in Samoa. He now lives on the south coast of England.

His novels and short stories have been critically received. Thompson is a Nommo Award and a Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award winner. He is a John W. Campbell Award finalist as well as nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Nommo Award. Thompson is also an illustrator and artist. His novella *The Murders of Molly Southbourne* has been optioned for screen adaptation.

His novel *Rosewater,* the first book in the *Wormwood trilogy* set in Nigeria, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2019.

## Bibliography

### Novels

#### The Wormwood Trilogy

* —— (2016). *Rosewater*.  (revised version 2018)
	+ —— (2018). *Rosewater* (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–432. ISBN 978-0316449052.
* —— (2019). *The Rosewater Insurrection* (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–374. ISBN 978-0316449083.
* —— (2019). *The Rosewater Redemption* (paperback ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–416. ISBN 978-0316449090.

#### Stand-alone

* —— (2015). *Making Wolf* (hardcover 1st ed.). Rosarium Publishing. pp. 1–270. ISBN 978-1495607486.
* —— (2021). *Far from the Light of Heaven* (hardcover 1st ed.). Orbit. pp. 1–384. ISBN 978-0759557918.

### Novellas

#### The Molly Southbourne Trilogy

* *The Murders of Molly Southbourne* (2017)
* *The Survival of Molly Southbourne* (2019)
* *The Legacy of Molly Southbourne* (2022)

### Short Fiction

* "The McMahon Institute for Unquiet Minds" (2005)
* "Slip Road" (2009)
* "Shadow" (2010)
* "Notes from Gethsemane" (2012)
* "Bicycle Girl" (2013)
* "One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight" (2013)
* "Slip Road" (revised) (2014)
* "Budo or, The Flying Orchid" (2014)
* "The Monkey House" (2015)
* "Child, Funeral, Thief, Death" (2015)
* "The Last Pantheon" (2015) (with Nick Wood)
* "Decommissioned" (2016)
* "Household Gods" (2016)
* "The Apologists" (2016)
* "Gnaw" (2016)
* "Bootblack" (2017)
* "Yard Dog" (2018)

### Essays

* *The Last Word on the Last Pantheon* (2016) (with Nick Wood)
* *Please Stop Talking about the 'Rise' of African Science Fiction* (2018)

## Other work

* *Omenana Magazine* #4 (September 2015) (cover art)
* *In Morningstar's Shadow: Dominion of the Fallen Stories* by Aliette de Bodard (2015) (cover art)

## References

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 C&W Agency (en).
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tade Thompson | Authors | Macmillan.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tade Thompson (1 March 2017).
4. ↑ Summary Bibliography: Tade Thompson (en-us).
5. ↑ Rosewater.
6. ↑ sfadb : Tade Thompson Awards.
7. ↑ BSFA London Meetings: Interview with Tade Thompson (18 July 2018).
8. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Roberts, Adam (4 October 2018). "Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut". *The Guardian*.
9. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Brown, Eric (15 January 2016). "The best science fiction novels – review roundup". *The Guardian*.
10. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Flood, Alison (8 March 2016). "Margaret Atwood wins Kitschies Red Tentacle award for The Heart Goes Last". *The Guardian*.
11. ↑ Interview: Tade Thompson - Lightspeed Magazine (24 October 2017).
12. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Cain, Sian (17 July 2019). "Tade Thompson's 'gritty' alien invasion tale wins Arthur C Clarke award". *The Guardian*.
13. ↑ Tade Thompson (5 September 2018). Author Interview: Tade Thompson on Rosewater.

## External links

* Tade Thompson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* Quotations related to Tade Thompson at Wikiquote

### Social Media:

* Tade Thompson on Twitter
* Tade Thompson on Goodreads

### Publisher Profile:

* Tade Thompson on Macmillan
* Tade Thompson on Audible
* Tade Thompson on Tor

### Spotlights and Interviews:

* Tade Thompson on *Strange Horizons*
* Tade Thompson on *Locus*