About Wole Talabi
Wole Talabi is a Nigerian published author as well as an engineer and editor. His full name is Oluwole Talabi, and he was born on February 28, 1986. He is considered to be among the Third Generation of Nigerian Writers and grew up in Warri, Delta. It is a city located in southern Nigeria. His father worked there as a chemical engineer. Wole would later move to Benin. Wole has written a full length fictional debut novel titled Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon. He has also worked on short stories, written anthologies including These Words Expose Us: An Anthology, Lights Out: Resurrection, and Africanfuturism: An Anthology. His short fiction has been featured in publications and outlets such as Lightspeed Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Tor.com. He has also written the collectio
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon(2023)
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
2 books in seriesPublication Order
- A Dream of Electric Mothers(2022)
- Saturday's Song(2023)
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Convergence Problems(2024)
Publication Order of The Harvester Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Incomplete Solutions(2019)
Publication Order of Gothic Fantasy Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Black Sci-Fi Short Stories(2021)
Publication Order of AfroSF Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- AfroSFv3(2018)
Publication Order of Anthologies
6 books in seriesPublication Order
- These Words Expose Us(2014)
- Lightspeed Magazine, May 2016(2016)
- Nowhereville(2019)
- Black Sci-Fi Short Stories(2021)
- Africa Risen(2022)
- The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9(2025)
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