Wole Talabi

Oluwole Talabi (born 28 February 1986) is a Nigerian science fiction writer, engineer, and editor, who is considered among the Third Generation of Nigerian Writers.

Early life and background

Wole was raised in Warri, Delta, a city in southern Nigeria, where his father was a chemical engineer, before later moving to Benin.

His works include an amount of short stories; the anthologies ''These Words Expose Us: An Anthology'' (2014), ''Lights Out: Resurrection'' (2016), '' Africanfuturism: An Anthology'' (2020); his collections, ''Incomplete Solutions'' (2019) and ''Convergence Problems'' (2024); and the debut novel ''Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon'' (2023). He was described in ''Scientific American'' as "an author who blends transhumanism and the Turing test".

He married Rocío Vizuete Fernandez in 2023 at Madrid, Spain.

Awards and recognition

* Winner of ROSL Readers' Award in Caine Prize for African Writing.
* Shortlisted for 2017 Nommo Award for Short Story ("Wednesday's Story").
* Winner for 2018 Nommo Award for Short Story ("The Regression Test").
* Winner 2020 Nommo Award for Novella (''Incompleteness Theories'')
* Shortlisted for 2020 Nommo Award for Short Story ("When We Dream We Are Our God").
* Nominated for the 2021 Locus Award for Best Anthology.
* Finalist for the 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award.
* Shortlisted for 2022 Nommo Award for Short Story ("An Arc of Electric Skin").
* Winner of the 2022 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, best short-form story ("A Dream of Electric Mothers").
* Shortlisted for 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novelette ("A Dream of Electric Mothers")
* Winner for 2024 Nommo Award Novel (''Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon'')

After winning his third Nommo Award in 2024, and having won on all three prose categories, he announced that he would decline any future nominations to clear the field for new writers.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon'' (2023)

Collections

*''Incomplete Solutions'' (2019)
*''Convergence Problems'' (2024)

Anthologies

*''Lights Out: Resurrection'' (2016)
*'' Africanfuturism: An Anthology'' (2020)
*''Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology'' (2023)

Short Fiction

*"Zombies" (2013)
*"Crocodile Ark" (2014)
*"Eye" (2015)
*"A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments of You" (2015)
*"Nested" (2016)
*"Wednesday's Story" (2016)
*"If They Can Learn" (2016)
*"Necessary and Sufficient Conditions" (2016)
*"I, Shigidi" (2016)
*"The Last Lagosian" (2016)
*"Home Is Where My Mother's Heart Is Buried" (2017)
*"Nneoma" (2017)
*"The Regression Test" (2017)
*"The Harmonic Resonance of Ejiro Anaborhi" (2018)
*"Drift-Flux" (2018)
*"When We Dream We Are Our God" (2019)
*"Incompleteness Theories" (2019)
*"Abeokuta52" (2019)
*"Tends to Zero" (2019)
*"Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application for An Eternal Spirit Core" (2021)
*"An Arc of Electric Skin" (2021)
*"A Dream of Electric Mothers" (2022)
*"Blowout" (2023)
*"Aboukela52" (2023)
*"Debut" (2024)
*"Embers" (2024)
*"Gamma (or: Love in the Age of Radiation Poisoning)" (2024)
*"Ganger" (2024)
*"Lights in the Sky" (2024)
*"Nigerian Dreams" (2024)
*"Performance Review" (2024)
*"Silence" (2024)
*"The Million Eyes of a Lonely and Fragile God" (2024)

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian fantasy writers
Nigerian writers
Nigerian science fiction writers
Nommo Award winners
Sidewise Award winners

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