Wole Talabi

Oluwole Talabi (born 28 February 1986) is a Nigerian speculative fiction writer, engineer, and editor, who is considered among the Third Generation of Nigerian Writers. His works include short stories, anthologies Lights Out: Resurrection (2016), Africanfuturism: An Anthology (2020), These Words Expose Us: An Anthology (2014), Incomplete Solutions (2019), novels Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (2023), and Convergence Problems (2024). He was described in the Scientific American as "an author who blends transhumanism and the Turing test".

Wole was born in Warri, Delta, a village in southern Nigeria.

Early life and background
Wole married Rocío Vizuete Fernandez in 2023 at Madrid, Spain.

Awards and recognition

 * Winner of ROSL Readers' Award in Caine Prize For African Writing.
 * Nominated for 2021 Locus Award for Best Anthology.
 * Winner for 2018 Nommo Award for Best Speculative fiction short story.
 * Finalist for Baen Books' 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award.
 * Winner for 2022 Sidewise Award for Alternate History best short-form story.

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)

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)