The Fist of Memory launches Wole Talabi’s Nigerian first-contact thriller

DAW’s US edition brings an assassin and an astronomer into the mystery surrounding a silent alien spacecraft.

Wole Talabi’s The Fist of Memory has reached its October 27 US publication date, with DAW listing hardcover and ebook editions. The 416-page novel places a first-contact mystery in near-future Nigeria, where the arrival of a spacecraft unsettles the world’s governments. Tope, an assassin working for the enigmatic Baba,

initially treats the disruption as something outside his immediate business. A failed assignment changes that. He becomes entangled in the struggle surrounding the visitors and joins Itumeleng, a South African astronomer whose troubling dreams may be connected to the craft. The story links an action-driven pursuit to

questions about memory and reality. Talabi previously wrote Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon and the short-fiction collection Convergence Problems. Readers checking international editions should use their local publisher’s listing: the October 27 date here applies to DAW’s US release. Source: Official

announcement or publisher listing. Image credit: DAW / Penguin Random House.

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