Speculative fiction writer, Wole Talabi has been voted as a shortlisted author under the Best Anthology category for his anthology, Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology published by Android Press.
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology is the first anthology of stories set in a fictional shared world based on a blend of African cultural worldviews. Edited by Locus award nominated editor Wole Talabi with contributions from around the African continent and diaspora, Sauúti is filled with wonder, mystery, and magic, African-based intergalactic worldbuilding, space travel, humanoid and non-humanoid creatures, artificial intelligence, intricate magic system based on sound, oral traditions, and music.
Selected by the jurors in the names of Colleen Anderson, Adri Joy, Creag Munroe, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Abbi Shaw, Wole Talabi triumphs among five other shortlisted authors of great importance!
The British Fantasy Awards (BFA) are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), first in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards. First awarded in 1972 (to The Knight of Swords by Michael Moorcock) only for novels, the number of award categories increased and in 1976 the BFS renamed them collectively to the British Fantasy Awards.
Oluwole Talabi (born 28 February 1986) is a Nigerian speculative fiction writer, engineer, and editor, who is considered among the Third Generation of Nigerian Writers. His works include an amount of short stories; the anthologies These Words Expose Us: An Anthology (2014), Lights Out: Resurrection (2016), African Futurism: An Anthology (2020); his collections, Incomplete Solutions (2019) and Convergence Problems (2024); and the debut novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (2023). He was described in Scientific American as “an author who blends transhumanism and the Turing test”.
Read the full list of all shortlisted authors here.
Congratulations Wole Talabi!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
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