Incomplete Solutions

Written by Wole Talabi

Narrated by Délé Ogundiran, Tony Tambi and Greta Jung

An elderly woman in early 22nd-century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence built from her genius mother’s mind, but all is not as it seems in the Nommo Award–winning story “The Regression Test”.

Exiled from Earth for a crime of passion, a young man must learn to survive a barely habitable prison planet and come to peace with his past in “Polaris”. “Wednesday’s Story”, nominated for the 2018 Caine Prize, is at once a retelling of
nursery rhymes and folklore and a meta-fictional meditation on the mechanics, art and power of storytelling.

In the novella “Incompleteness Theories”, an international team, led by a Nigerian physicist, try to invent teleportation technology with haunting, unforeseen results.

From the bustling streets of Lagos to the icy moons of Jupiter, this debut collection of twenty stories from the vivid imagination of the award-winning Wole Talabi explores what it means to be human in a world of accelerating technology,
diverse beliefs, and unlimited potential, from a uniquely Nigerian perspective.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781705072905

Wole Talabi

Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. He is the author of SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON (DAW/Gollancz, August 2023) and INCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS (Luna Press, 2019). His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and other places. His work has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Caine Prize, the Locus Award, the Nommo Award and been translated into seven languages. He has edited four anthologies: TALES FROM THE COMING NIGHT (2022, a translation anthology in Bengali), AFRICANFUTURISM (2020, nominated for the Locus Award), LIGHTS OUT: RESURRECTION (2016) and THESE WORDS EXPOSE US(2014). MOTHERSOUND: THE SAUÚTIVERSE ANTHOLOGY is his fifth work as editor. He likes scuba diving, elegant equations, and oddly shaped things. He currently lives and works in Malaysia. Find him at wtalabi.wordpress.com and @wtalabi on twitter.