THE FIST OF MEMORY
A first contact thriller unlike any other and a meditation on the nature of reality, memory and connectedness.
In this thriller, a strange and non-communicative alien spacecraft suddenly appears in the sky, global powers are thrown into turmoil. Tope, an assassin, and Itumeleng, an astrophysicist, find themselves drawn into a battle for the future that is to come.
ABOUT WOLE
Wole Talabi is an award-winning Nigerian writer. He is the author of The Fist Of Memory (2026) and Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (2023). His short fiction is collected in Convergence Problems (2024) and Incomplete Solutions (2019). His stories explore future and myth through an Africanfuturist lens.
Praise for Wole Talabi
“Talabi’s skilled writing presents a unique meeting of big concepts and elegantly-crafted action”
“For those who feel as if they’ve been waiting years for a novel by Wole Talabi, Shigidi surpasses expectations.”
“Wole Talabi mixes literary skill with speculative SF abilities to make him one of the spearheads of the African revolution in speculative writing”