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.
THE FIST OF MEMORY
COMING SOON!
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.
SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON
A Washington Post top 10 best science fiction and fantasy book of 2023
A former nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company and a succubus with a long and secretive past are tasked with liberating a Nigerian artefact from London’s British Museum. This is a heist novel filled to the brim with magic.
“A heist caper with sex, violence, and superpowers popping off every technicolor page.”
CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS
From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.
“Beautiful, vibrant, and electrifying, this has the makings of a modern classic.”
INCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS
From the bustling streets of Lagos to the icy moons of Jupiter, this debut collection of twenty stories from the vivid imagination of the award-winning Wole Talabi explores what it means to be human in a world of accelerating technology, diverse beliefs, and unlimited potential, from a uniquely Nigerian perspective.
“Talabi’s worlds are diverting, thought-provoking, and never quite go where one expects them to.”