Wole Talabi is a Nigerian author of speculative fiction and editor.
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Scientific American
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'' described him as an author who "...blends transhumanism and the
Turing test
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He is considered to be among the
Third Generation of Nigerian Writers.
Awards and recognition
* Winner of
ROSL Readers' Award in
Caine Prize For African Writing
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.
*Nominated for 2021
Locus Award for Best Anthology.
*Winner for 2018
Nommo Award for Best Speculative fiction short story.
*Finalist for
Baen Books
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' 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award.
Bibliography
Anthologies
*''Incomplete Solutions'' (2019)
*''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)
References
Nigerian writers
Nommo Award winners
Nigerian science fiction writers
Nigerian fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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