My review of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, by Wole Talabi #books #booksky #literature 📚💙 app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b39c...

Looking for things to nominate for awards n things? Here are my picks of last year's best sff novels....

Dune Supreme. Apop Dunemon Hunters. Sinners Of Dune. One Dune After Another?

Great list I've been working my way through this week. reactormag.com/tenish-of-th...

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

Hey y'all! The official book page for my forthcoming novel The Fist of Memory is up so you can pre-order it. Here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-... or here: www.amazon.co.uk/Fist-Memory-... You can also add it to your GR “Want to Read” list! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... 🙏🏾🚀📖🤖

A very fun retelling of Yoruba Orisa (v loosely) - Shigidi & The Brass Head of Obalufon. HIGHLY recommend

finally reading Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

My Top 10 African Short SFF Stories of 2025 Hey y’all! If you've been following this blog you probably know exactly what this is. At the start of every year, I make a list to highlight the African speculative fiction short stories I read and enjoyed the most from the previous year. This year,…

Four beaches, Western Australia.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "The simulation is running now."

Just completed a 2300km road trip around Western Australia and managed to see only one snake and one spider. Besides, there were so many cool things along the way.

Proud to be here for another Black History Month! Show some love to the Black creators who've been a part of FIYAH for the past decade: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚 Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!

This sits in the back of my head like a cyst: how many have we lost, how many more do we lose all the time? How many children with the potential to reframe human understanding like Einstein or lift hearts like Mozart are born and never educated, spend childhoods dissolving ewaste in acid?

This. Sexism and sexual harassment/SA is rampant and driving out talent, but it's not the only form of systemic oppression robbing us of incredible art just to protect a handful of sad, mediocre white men

Michael Morgan suggests that the fact we live in a world where genocide exists should be cause for moral shame. I think that the point below should encourage a broadening of Morgan's source of shame. This isn't history. It is our present. Does that change how you want to live?

This is one of the great tragedies of humanity, and the fact that it's still the case should shame us all. But there's one small light - those that manage to break through IN SPITE of all of all this. These are truly remarkable people. There are some really inspiring examples in SA philosophy.

Extrapolating in another direction: I also often think of just how much human potential has been lost because of systemic racism, classism and imperialism. All the joy, innovation, art and more that we didn’t get - the opportunity cost of systems where one or a few men (its usually men) benefit.

Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚 Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!

2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.

Damn. Then I could be talking about THE FIST OF MEMORY for 15 years.

i want to congratulate people on the Locus Recommended Reading List!!! people like @bogiperson.bsky.social and @wiswell.bsky.social and @marissalingen.bsky.social and @thomasha.bsky.social and @wtalabi.com (and so many more!!!!) also "The Death of Mountains" you were, all told, good at your job

Well then! The 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List is out and I’m very glad that my @sauutiverse novella DESCENT makes an appearance alongside some of the best SFF work published last year. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025... 🚀 I know how much effort goes into this list so congratulations to all of us.

Hyped for this!

Pre-orders, Early Love And Holding On To The Fist Of Memory Right. The excitement for my second novel, The Fist of Memory, has started bubbling up to the surface. Here we go again. Its funny because a few years ago I really thought I would never write a novel. I was already planning out a career…

Startling insight into the #sauutiverse. @sauutiverse.bsky.social . @brittlepaper.bsky.social , @stephenembleton.bsky.social , @wtalabi.com brittlepaper.com/2026/01/weve...

Yep. This is why pre-ordering, requesting from libraries or even just shelving the books youre interested in can be critical for an author, something I touch on in my latest blog post. wtalabi.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/p...

Pre-orders, Early Love And Holding On To The Fist Of Memory Right. The excitement for my second novel, The Fist of Memory, has started bubbling up to the surface. Here we go again. Its funny because a few years ago I really thought I would never write a novel. I was already planning out a career…

The Great Emu War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War (whenever I tell people about this they think i made it up)

Oh hey look who popped up on the Locus People and Publishing roundup. locusmag.com/2025/12/peop...

So did I. And yes.

I grew up under a military dictatorship in the 90s and the refrain was always the same: you have to comply because "they can shoot you and nothing will happen". Some of the things I'm seeing on the news and timeline are looking very reminiscent of those bad times.

Folks, don't listen to the folks that tell you AI will take away your busywork. Busywork performs a function. While you're doing it, background processes are still working on more complex problems. You may find yourself 'miraculously' able to solve a knotty problem after some busywork.

Very cool to find my novella 'Descent' on the BSFA Award Longlist.

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards! Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

I just thought everyone should see this

I'm starting to think the Academy doesnt know Park Chan Wook exists.

Despite what looks like increasing global division, I'm still seeing cooperation to resist the worst of our nature. I still believe equity, togetherness and unity will save us.

Also in #Bookpost from me to me my copy of Sauuti Terrors - short stories from the unique universe created by contemporary African writers edited by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephe Embleton

It would be nice if autocorrect stopped trying to make me "whole"

I've been thinking of a one-line pitch for my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY and what i have so far is: "Assassins, Ancestors, and Aliens" Still working on it.

Clarkesworld poll! You can select up to 6 short stories, 4 novelettes/novellas, 3 covers My story “Through These Moments, Darkly” is in here and other faves include “Missing Helen” by @tiatashiro.bsky.social and “Descent” by @wtalabi.bsky.social, but so many fantastic stories to choose from!!!

A lot of my favorite stories from last year were published in Clarkesworld (they also published my @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella "Descent"!) so its going to be near impossible to select just a few. But hey, let your faves know you enjoyed their work by voting y'all!

Sauúti Terrors Has Arrived! Here we go. “Sauúti Terrors”, the second anthology of stories set in the first SFF Shared World created by African and African Diaspora authors which we've been working on as a collective for more than 4 years, has finally been published by Flame Tree Press! So here's…

🎊 !!HAPPY RELEASE DAY!! 🎊 I am so thrilled this deliciously dark, diverse, and dynamic collection of short stories and poems inspired by all things African is now available wherever you buy books: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sauuti... #booksky @sauutiverse.bsky.social

Mythic fantasy. Complex Relationships. A story that spans centuries and continents. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon will have you captivated from the first page to the last, craving for more stories told by Wole Talabi. buff.ly/fwUXE9F

Incisive post by Cory Doctorow on AI. Worth reading and sharing imo www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...