Wole Talabi Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of The Harvester Books

Publication Order of AfroSF Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

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 collection Incomplete Solutions, which was published in 2019, and the 2024 anthology Convergence Problems. He has been described as an author in Scientific American who ‘blends transhumanism and the Turing Test’.

Talabi got married to Rocío Vizuete Fernandez in Madrid, Spain and the two tied the knot and said “I do” in 2023.

Wole Talabi has been a finalist for several awards, including the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nommo Award, and the Caine Prize for African Writing. He has also served as an editor for multiple anthologies.

Wole enjoys elegant equations, scuba diving, and things that are shaped oddly. He resides in Malaysia, where he also works.

Wole Talabi has received a lot of recognition for his work, many of it in award form. He has won the ROSL Readers’ Award in Caine Prize for African Writing. He also won the 2018 Nommo Award for his short story “The Regression Test”. He then won the 2020 Nommo Award for his novella Incompleteness Theories. He is also the winner of the 2022 Sidewise Award for alternate history for his best short-form story “A Dream of Electric Mothers” and the 2024 Nommo Award for his debut novel, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon.

He has also been nominated for several awards and made the short list or made it to finalist status for several awards that he ultimately did not win. He has been nominated for the 2021 Locus Award for best Anthology, made the short list for a 2017 Nommo Award for a short story and then again in 2020.

Wole has been a finalist for the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, made the shortlist for a Nommo Award, and was shortlisted for a 2023 Hugo Award for best novelette. The author decided that after winning his third Nommo Award and winning in all three of the prose categories that in the future he would choose to decline nominations to clear space for other authors.

His writing has been translated into as many as seven languages. Wole Talabi is also the producer of the 2024 video short “On Our Skin”.

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon is the debut fictional novel from author Wole Talabi. This is a fantasy novel that you will definitely want to check out if you love unique fantasy or are always excited to check out a fresh new voice in literature.

This is a mythical story of gods, revenge, and a heist done over two different worlds. Shigidi is a nightmare god who is upset and not motivated at all. He’s part of the Orisha spirit company, going out of his way to answer prayers for the believers that remain faithful in him so that he can keep his existence going for enough time for him to track down his next drink.

Then Shigidi encounters Nneoma, a succubus of types with a past that is as long as it is full of secrets. It ends up being a transformative event and everything in his life shifts and changes after that. They work together to try and get away from his obligations as well as the restriction that have tied him to being a god.

They also try to work the parameters of their freshly forged relationship while working with how her past is influencing things. However, there are also hierarchies when it comes to the Orisha spirit company. The elder gods have outside plans for Shigidi, and not all of them are lined up or positive.

From Lagos and the noisy streets to the bars on top of roofs in Singapore to the secret spaces that London has to offer, Nneoma and Shigidi are going to meet acquaintances from the past, some rival gods, odd creatures, and magicians with plenty of manipulative qualities as they are slowly pulled into a complex world that involves everything from spirit business to revenge to a heist that takes place over two different worlds.

In the process, Shigidi may find his entire understanding of who he is forever altered and that it is within his power to set the ultimate fate for the Orisha spirit company once and for all. What will he do? Read this engaging debut novel from Wole Talabi to find out!

Incomplete Solutions is a collection of stories from Wole Talabi. If you love a good collection of some of the most innovative and creative stories from the mind of one person and have a passion for science fiction as well, this is an excellent choice for you.

One story is titled “Polaris”. In this story, a young man is kicked out of Earth simply for committing a crime of passion. He’s going to have to figure out how to make it through a prison planet that can barely be inhabited. He’s also going to have to deal with the past and come to a type of terms about it.

Then there’s the story “The Regression Test”. In this story, an older woman living in Lagos in the 22nd century is called upon so that she can assist in testing an A.I. that has been constructed from the mind of her incredibly intelligent mother. However, ultimately not everything is going to be as it appears.

Check out Incomplete Solutions to read all of the stories yourself!