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Wole Talabi

@wtalabi.bsky.social

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Engineer | Writer | Editor

Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses

Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist

My novel Shigidi out now: tinyurl.com/Shigidi

Wole Talabi's avatar Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social
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Ahhh then its the other one! Yes!

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The Last Pantheon? Yes, but you can do that when I'm closer to you (in a few weeks). Which reminds me... I need to email you.

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Mistake? or secret multiverse? who knows!

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You know what's cool? Seeing my novel highlighted on my former university's Alumni bookshelf.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast)'s avatar Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social
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A bunch of very promising reading on here! Some, from @vajra.me and @wtalabi.bsky.social, I already knew were great, and I'm just about to get into @premeemohamed.com's The Butcher of the Forest, but there's also a lot that I hadn't come across.

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This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?

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Oh I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully the pain is a bit less now. And Yes the video should be posted soon. I'll let you know once its up.

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Yeah that was just pointed out to me. I will ask the editor. Luckily there is an alternate cover by John Jennings

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I only just noticed that. I will ask the editor. Luckily there is an alternate cover by John Jennings which doesn't look generated to me.

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Great question! Its by South African artist Tlou Thapelo Tubz Ramatlhodi

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Hi everyone, kindly consider supporting the Kickstarter for Spacefunk! A collection of science fiction stories and poems by authors of African/African Diaspora Descent. Edited by Milton Davis

Space is the place.

#BlackScifi

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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What Wole said. If you'd like to listen to 4 African writers of science fiction and fantasy, flung all over the world, discuss what it's like to dream up the Afrocentric worlds we do, come join us on Saturday!

Registration link is here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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The "reasonable person standard" isn't even standard at all.

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Haha. I couldn't picture him with a shaved head but yes Winston can certainly work too. Mike is the frontrunner though. Probably.

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Ohh lots of great options! If we're going for a Hollywood adaptation, probably Mike Colter or Gbenga Akinnagbe or Trevante Rhodes or Yahya Abdul Mateen II. Anyone with that look and vibe.

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thank you! It was really good to meet so many new readers

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Sold out yesterday at Supanova comic con

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Payseur's review mentions my subterranean Press e-short IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE "[T]he story aptly avoids the pitfalls of many incarceration narratives that focus on a feeling of slowing time to give a sense of scale, instead providing a rather brisk and satisfying tale of cooperation and action."

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Jan Murphy's avatar Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social
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💙📚 Hey Booksky, Talabi's work is downpriced right now, check your favorite ebook retailers. 👇 Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon and the short-story collection Convergence Problems are on my TBR pile.

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Hey people travelling for summer, Brittlepaper recommends my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS for your beach read.

brittlepaper.com/2024/06/35-a...

Unsurprisingly, I agree. You can take breaks between each story and go into the water. Then come out and read a new one in the sun. Fun!
🏖️ ☀️ 📖

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Covering so much, watch this excellent interview with Sauúti Collective member and editor of our first anthology, Wole Talabi 🪐🚀🔥💫

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Thank you very much and I hope you enjoy it immensely!

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Ah. In case you missed it, I did a BSFA Interview with the excellent Gareth Worthington about my motivations, the intersections of engineering and creative writing, my novel SHIGIDI, the new collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS, the
@sauutiverse.bsky.social and more!

youtu.be/GA0QA9o9B_4?...

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hahaha what a great pitch! Thank you

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Caution🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 's avatar Caution🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @noncompliant.bsky.social
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This book is one of my top 3 reads of the year, and if you haven’t read it yet, not taking advantage of this opportunity to do so could be construed by those who love you as self-harm. Be good to yourself, you deserve this.

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"self-hating nightmare gods are indeed the best protagonists" - William Shakespeare (2022)

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I'm only 50 pages in and it's already one of my favourite books 🙌 Who doesn't want a self-hating nightmare god as a protagonist?!

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A lesson some people seem determined to learn over and over again. As if they weren't kids themselves once.

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Vespertine (My Crimson Bride) is such a great song. Probably one of my favorite Kamelot songs, maybe even top 3 (and thats saying a lot because I love a lot of Kamelot's songs). Of course its on my official SHIGIDI soundtrack. I was listening to a lot when I wrote that book.

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The more I listen to it, the more I like Kamelot's "The Awakening". Heard it last year and it sounded like basic Kamelot doing the same old stuff, but on repeated listening, its actually got a bunch of bangers.

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Jan Murphy's avatar Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social
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📚💙 Already in my #TBR pile, tagging for BookSky

Pro authors are waaaaay better writers than I am, so I'll just let the author's description do the work here.
👇

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Oh hey!
The ebook of my BSFA, Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and Nommo award nominated novel is on sale for just $2.99. Grab it if you like a spicy, character-driven, postcolonial, anticapitalist, African fantasy heist adventure with gods, magic and monsters.😉📗🌍
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/shig...

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I started the audiobook today and I’m only about 2 hours in, but so far this book is pure delight!

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In case you missed it, I talked with the awesome
@mightymur.bsky.social
about my motivations, existing in a state of constant state of simultaneous success + disappointment, my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS, improving as a writer, general craft and more:

www.youtube.com/live/0Vy7zPa...

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺's avatar Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social
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Please help boost an indie sff press. Also an old 2016-17 werewolf space opera. If you want to get the Starfang books... Go direct to my publisher:

www.foxspirit.co.uk/books/novell...

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Haha! (even more hilarious because Europe isn't a real geological continent anyway, just a western peninsula of Asia).

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