Incomplete Solutions, Wole Talabi
Incomplete Solutions, Wole Talabi
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Incomplete Solutions

Author: Wole Talabi

Narrator: Dele Ogundiran, Greta Jung, Tony Tambi

Unabridged: 14 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ed

A solid collection of stories from a relatively new author. There are no bad stories here. (There is one where "I don't get it", but that's just me.) Most of the stories are SF, including two that won a Nommo award: "The Regression Test" and "Incompleteness Theories". Several are fantasy, including......more

Goodreads review by Johan

9- I did quite enjoy this collection of SF-stories by Nigerian author Wole Talabi. I had seen an interview by him and read his great and touching story 'The Regression Test' in 'Best of World SF vol 2', which had stoked my enthousiasm. SF seems to be dominated by English and American voices, but tha......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

I only listened to the short story The Regression Test from this collection on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. A regression test "is defined as a type of software testing to confirm that a recent program or code change has not adversely affected existing features", and in this story, an elderly woma......more

5.0⭐ “Don’t tell me what you think—tell me what you believe.” **spoilers** ♡ LBR 2021♡ It’s LeVar Burton Reads season 8! Season of Choice, & Effect. For me personally, we might have a Best-of-Season-8 here.... We’re on episode 5, gifted with “The Regression Test” by Wole Talabi. I. Love. Psycholog......more