Today, in a small, quiet room near the centre of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, I went into the cold darkness of sleep and when I returned to the warm light of consciousness, I had become a god.
Wole Talabi
Wole Talabi is a full-time engineer, part-time writer and some-time editor from Nigeria. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), Lightspeed Magazine, AfroSFv3, Omenana, and other places. He has edited two anthologies and co-written a play. His fiction has been nominated for the Caine Prize, the Nommo Awards, and been translated into Norwegian, Chinese, and French. His debut collection of stories, Incomplete Solutions, is out now. He currently lives and works in Malaysia.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
The dusty, bumpy road linking the magnetic hyper-expressway to Ijebu-Ode was nothing like the smooth, organised, and illuminated tunnels from which it branched out.