Talabi, Wole
Entry updated 18 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1986- ) Nigerian engineer, editor and author now resident in Malaysia. Talabi began publishing work of genre interest with "The Human Thing" in The Naked Convos in 2011. He made his first professional sale with "Wednesday's Story" in Lightspeed Magazine for May 2016, and has since published a string of works in genre publications including F&SF, Clarkesworld and others. "The Regression Test" (January-February 2017 F&SF), a carefully thought-out examination of consciousness and AI, won a Nommo Award in 2018, as did "Incompleteness Theories" in 2020. The latter tale first appeared in Incomplete Solutions (coll 2019), a collection of his major short fiction to date. He has also published short work under his full name Oluwole Talabi.
As editor, Talabi has done much to promote African sf. Lights Out: Resurrection (anth 2016) is an Anthology of horror stories. Africanfuturism (anth 2020) (see Afrofuturism) collects sf works by major African and African-diaspora writers. [LTi]
Oluwole Talabi
born Warri, Nigeria: 28 February 1986
works
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (New York: DAW Books, 2023) [hb/]
collections
- Incomplete Solutions (Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2019) [coll: pb/Joey Hi-Fi]
- Convergence Problems (New York: DAW, 2024) [coll: hb/Jim Tierney]
works as editor
- These Words Expose Us (Nigeria: The Naked Convos, 2014) [anth: pb/Tokunbo Aworinde]
- Lights Out: Resurrection (Nigeria: The Naked Convos, 2016) [anth: pb/Olawale Adetula]
- Africanfuturism (Madison, Wisconsin: Brittle Paper, 2020) [anth: ebook: na/]
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