Talabi’s short fiction has made him a finalist for the Caine Prize, the Locus Award, and the Nommo Award. He is currently shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association and Nebula Awards. With Shigidi and the Brass head of Obalufon he won the 2024 Ilube Award for Best Speculative Fiction NOVEL. He has edited three anthologies and co-written a play. His latest book The Fist of Memory will be published in October 2026.
TALABI is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. His fiction has appeared in speculative fiction magazines and anthologies globally and has been translated into 3 languages. He has been shortlisted for several major awards including the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Nommo Award, which he won twice – in 2018 (for The Regression Test) and 2020 (for Incompleteness Theories).
He likes scuba diving, elegant equations and oddly shaped things. He currently lives and works in Perth, Australia.
Books
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
The Fist of Memory
Convergence Problems
Incomplete Solutions
Mothersound, the Sauutiverse Anthology
God’s Eye