Novels:
“Shigidi And The Brass Head Of Obalufon” – published by DAW Books/Astra Publishing (US) and Gollancz/Orion Books (UK)
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Collections:
“Incomplete Solutions” – published by Luna Press, Scotland, June 2019
[Includes the original novella “Incompleteness Theories” (2020 Nommo Award winner) and the original novelette “Polaris” / 7 Selected stories translated and reprinted in Spanish as “Ecuaciones Esenciales” by Ediciones Franz / Audiobook Version by Recorded Books available at this Link]
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Short Fiction:
How To Win The G’idiidigbo Challenge: A Practical Guide.” (A Sauútiverse Story) – in 99 Fleeting Fantasies, Forthcoming
“Blowout” – in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Forthcoming
“Saturday’s Song” – Published in Lightspeed Magazine, May 2023
“A Dream Of Electric Mothers” – Published in Africa Risen: A New Era Of Speculative Fiction, November 2022
[2023 Nebula Awards Finalist / Reprinted in Tor.com, March 2022 / 2023 Locus Awards Finalist / Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Future Affairs Administration, 2023]
“Performance Review” – in Wordcraft Writers Workshop, Project for Google Research, November 2022
“An Arc of Electric Skin” – Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 2021
[Author Interview / 2022 Locus Awards Finalist / 2022 Nommo Award Finalist / Reprinted in Apex Magazine, April 2022 / Reprinted in Forever Magazine, May 2022 / Reprinted in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022.]
“Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application For An Eternal Spirit Core” – Published in Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2021
[Stabby Awards Finalist, Best Short Fiction]
“Tends To Zero” – Published in the Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People anthology, December 2019
“Abeokuta52” – Published in Omenana Issue 14, October 2019
[Reprinted in The Big Book of Cyberpunk (Vintage, 2023)]
“Debut” – Published in Overseas Magazine, March 2019
“Drift-Flux” – Published in AfroSFv3, December 2018
“When We Dream We Are Our God” – Published in Norwegian as “Når Vi Drømmer, Er Vi Selv Gud” in the 10 Investigations: All Borders Are Temporary anthology, April 2018
[First Appeared in English in Apex Magazine, May 2019 / 2020 Nommo Award Finalist, Best Short Story / Author reading]
“The Harmonic Resonance Of Ejiro Anaborhi” – Published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), March 2018
[Reprint and Audio version published in Escape Pod, February 2019 / Author Interview]
“Nneoma” – Published in Space and Time Magazine, August 2017
“Home is Where My Mother’s Heart is Buried” – Published in FIYAH! Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, April 2017
“The Regression Test” – Published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), January 2017.
[Reprinted in The Manchester Review, July 2017 / Reprinted in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories, June 2021 / Reprinted in Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging through Science Fiction, from MIT Press, February 2023 / Reprinted in The Best of World SF Vol. 2, October 2022 / Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Science Fiction World, January 2018 / Translated into Italian and reprinted in Futuri Uniti d’Africa, May 2021 / Author Interview / 2018 Nommo Award Winner, Best Short Story]
“The Last Lagosian” – Published in Omenana Issue 8, November 2016.
[Translated into Spanish and reprinted in The Word For World is Story, March 2020.]
“The Million Eyes of a Lonely and Fragile God” – Published in Stupefying Stories, October 2016
“I, Shigidi” – Published in Abyss and Apex, October 2016
“Necessary And Sufficient Conditions” – Published in Imagine Africa 500, June 2016
[Reprinted in Apex Magazine, February 2019]
“If They Can Learn” – Published in Futuristica Vol. 1, June 2016
“Wednesday’s Story” – Published in Lightspeed Magazine, May 2016.
[Reprinted in the Event Horizon 2017 anthology, March 2017 / Reprinted in Redemption Song and Other Stories, June 2018 / Nominated for the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing / Winner of the Royal Overseas League Readers Choice Awards 2018 / 2017 Nommo Award Finalist / 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List / Author Spotlight ]
“Nested” – Published in SciPhi Journal, February 2016
“Parse. Error. Reset.” – Published in Terraform, August 2015.
[2nd Place Prize, AMC Network and Motherboard’s Post-Humans Story Contest / Reprinted in the Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn anthology, August 2022]
“The In-Between Places” – Published in Klorofyl Magazine, The Nomads Issue, July 2015
“A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments Of You” – Published in Omenana, Issue 3, June 2015
[ Long-listed for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) award]
“Liar” – Published in Wazi, June 2015
“Eye” – Published in Liquid Imagination, Issue 24, February 2015.
“Lights In The Sky” – Published in TheNakedConvos, December 2014
“Thursday” – Published in The Kalahari Review, December 2014
“Crocodile Ark” – Published in Omenana, Issue 1, December 2014
“A Certain Sort of Warm Magic” – Published in These Words Expose Us: An Anthology, September 2014
“Gamma, Or, Love in the Age of Radiation Poisoning” – Published in The Kalahari Review, April 2014.
[Audio version published on Amazing Stories, January 2016]
“Zombies” – Published in Klorofyl Magazine, The Tomorrows Issue, April 2014
“Connectome, Or, The Facts in the Case of Miss Valerie DeMarco, (Ph.D)” – Published in TheNakedConvos, December 2013
“Silence” – Published in BellaNaija Prose, November 2013. Reprinted in These Words Expose Us: An Anthology, September 2014
“Sakura” – Published in TheNakedConvos, December 2012
“Transmission” – Published in BellaNaija Prose, November 2012
“False Lives” – Originally Published in Afrosays, August 2012. Sandman Fan-fiction. Available for Free Download
“The Human Thing” – Published in TheNakedConvos, December 2011. Reprinted in Sub-Saharan Magazine, October 2015
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As Editor:
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, November 2023
Tales From The Coming Night: Contemporary African Speculative Fiction (in Bengali), January 2023
Africanfuturism: An Anthology, September 2020
Lights Out: Resurrection, October 2016
These Words Expose Us: An Anthology, September 2014
Wole Talabi 
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