"Ganger"
| Title | "Ganger" |
| Year for Search | 2024 |
| Authors | Talabi, Wole(b. 1986) |
| Secondary Title | Convergence Problems |
| Pagination | 68-175, with an author’s note on 299-301 |
| Date Published | 2024 |
| Publisher | DAW Books/Astra Publishing House |
| Place Published | New York |
| ISBN Number | 9780756418830 |
| Keywords | Malaysian author, Male author, Nigerian author |
| Annotation | The novella concerns a young woman living in a domed city that is completely controlled by a corporation that has placed “a sub-cranial interrogator” in everyone. The girl wants to be free; her parents what her to apply to the AI who controls the city for a “marriage assignment” with the AI choosing her partner. Parallel with her story is a tale reworked from a Yoruba legend of an old hunter whose aging body no longer allows him to hunt who is given the power to transform himself one day at a time back into a young leopard. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The Nigerian author (b.1986) is a chemical/petroleum engineer living in Malaysia. |
| Full Text | 2024 Talabi, Wole (b. 1986). “Ganger.” In his Convergence Problems (New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2024), 68-175, with an author’s note on 299-301. PSt The novella concerns a young woman living in a domed city that is completely controlled by a corporation that has placed “a sub-cranial interrogator” in everyone. The girl wants to be free; her parents what her to apply to the AI who controls the city for a “marriage assignment” with the AI choosing her partner. Parallel with her story is a tale reworked from a Yoruba legend of an old hunter whose aging body no longer allows him to hunt who is given the power to transform himself one day at a time back into a young leopard. The Nigerian author is a chemical/petroleum engineer living in Malaysia. |
