Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy, in line with contemporary African science and speculative fiction more generally, has been considered utopian in scope, even if it thoroughly reworks the classical form of the narrative Utopia. Based on the popular first volume, Rosewater (2016), this is under standable. However, this essay will argue that as a whole, the trilogy is bet ter understood as staging the rise and fall of different types of utopias, and even as ultimately taking an anti-utopian stance. Arguing for the importance of ambiguity in the trilogy , the essay will suggest that, ultimately, it registers the structural crisis of late capitalism.