They decimated their own planet so thoroughly that they could no longer survive as a species. Instead, Thompson’s novels put an important spin on traditional colonial narratives in science fiction: the Homians are never physically going to arrive to take over. So even though the so-called Homians have sent probes across space searching for resource-rich planets to colonize, they do not plan to board spaceships following the probes to the planet, expand their empire, or export the wealth of the colonies back to the metropole. In fact, their homeworld no longer exists in a liveable form. The aliens are not removing earth’s resources to take back to their homeworld. At first glance, Tade Thompson’s trilogy of novels chronicling an alien invasion in Nigeria may not appear to deal with extractivism.
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