TY - ABST T1 - “Behind Our Irises” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) ED - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Motswanan author AB -

Technological dystopia in which a corporation uses an implant in its employees to control them. 

JF - Africanfuturism: An Anthology PB - Brittle Paper CY - [Madison, WI] ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Yat Madit” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) ED - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -

A complex little story told by a young woman when the man she thought of as her father is released from thirty years in prison. He had been the corrupt, murderous dictator of the country and intends to run for local office, but the country is now governed through a set of algorithms, the Yat Madit, that she is afraid he intends to undermine. 

JF - Africanfuturism: An Anthology PB - Brittle Paper CY - [Madison, WI] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polaris" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set mostly on Mars, which is being used as a dumping ground for prisoners and opponents of those in power on Earth. After a difficult start, the people form a government and begin terraforming the planet. 

JF - Incomplete Solutions PB - Luna Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Home is Where My Mother’s Heart is Buried” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set on a Mars inhabited by humans and aliens and reflects on human prejudice, gender identity, and the dystopia that was the Nigeria the protagonist had left. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 2 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 N1 -

Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 189-200, with an author’s note on 262. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Lagosian" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 8 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenana.com/2016/11/09/the-last-lagosian-wole-talabi/ N1 -

 Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 100-10, with an author’s note on 258.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Thing" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story follows human history from 2058 to 2505, during which overpopulation leads to the supposed elimination of all nations and the construction of huge city towers to hold the world’s population under the United Nations, now known as The Human Centre, which is a world government. All people are adequately fed, clothed, and housed, but because nations didn’t really disappear, nuclear war breaks out with Israel eliminating the entire population of Iran and New Arabia destroying Haifa in retaliation. This is then followed by the creation of one world religion, SHINRAH, which, while saying it has eliminated government becomes an all-powerful government. 

JF - Sub-Saharan Magazine UR - https://subsaharanmagazine.com/2015/10/12/the-human-thing-wole-talabi/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments of You” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story depicts points in the lives of a young woman from her time on a slave ship to a future her on a craft about to land on a moon of Jupiter. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 3 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenanadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/omenana-issue-3.pdf N1 -

Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 5-10, with an author’s note on 255. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crocodile Ark” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Oluwole Talabi (b. 1986) KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future Nigerian religious dystopia with the Prophet and Prophet and the rich live well in orbit and the rest survive on rations on Earth. 

JF - Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 SN - 978-1-911143-55-0 UR - https://omenana.com/2014/11/30/crocodile-ark/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 86-96, with an author’s note on 257-258

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