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Convergence Problems is a new short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author Wole Talabi

Containing brand-new stories, rewrites of early work, and a few previously published pieces, Wole Talabi's new collection, Convergence Problems, consists of sixteen shortstories and one previously unseen novella. All of the stories in this collection are set in, or relate to, Africa and investigate the rapidly changing role of technology in our lives aswe search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging to our futureselves.

In Lagos, Nigeria, a roadside mechanic volunteers to undergo a procedure that willincrease the electrical conductivity of his skin by orders of magnitude. On Mars, awoman races against time and a previously undocumented geological phenomenon tosave her brother. In Nairobi, a tech support engineer tries to understand what ishappening when an AI system begins malfunctioning in ways that could change theworld.