Caged Ocean Dub is published as a sewn hardback of 242 pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, and d/w.

 

First edition. (It will be reprinted later this year in paperback by Android Press.)

 

ISBN 978-1-912586-45-5

 

£40.00 inc. free p&p worldwide

 

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Caged Ocean Dub

Dare Segun Falowo

 

This new collection of eighteen weird, vivid, beautiful stories by Dare Segun Falowo, rising star of African Literature, explores Nigerian life, culture and belief through the prism of the writer’s extraordinary imagination. The stories range from the historical slipstream of ‘Eating Kaolin’, to the gleaming horror of ‘Ngozi Ugegbe Nwa’, in which a strange and beautiful mirror wreaks havoc on the life of a young Lagos model, to the lysergic science fiction of ‘Convergence in Chorus Architecture’.

 

Falowo describes his collection thus: ‘These texts are mostly inspired by real events and/or emotional states, and were also fuelled by my love of indigenous cosmologies and pop culture symbolism. They were written in various caged spaces, where the pulse and ambient sounds of the world outside became, after a while, like arrhythmic waves crashing on the shores of my listening.’

 

Glittering and strange, deeply humane and percipient, these stories attest to the rude health of the new wave of world supernatural fiction—Caged Ocean Dub is in the vanguard of that wave.

 

About the author:

Dare Segun Falowo is a writer of the Nigerian Weird whose work draws on cinema, indigenous cos-mologies, pulp fiction and the surreal. Falowo's short fiction has appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Dark Magazine, Baffling Magazine and others. Falowo has also contributed to the anthologies of black speculative fiction: Dominion and Africa Risen. Their lysergic science fiction epic, ‘Convergence in Chorus Architecture’ was longlisted for the BFSA for Short Fiction.

 

Dare currently lives in Nigeria, between Ibadan and Lagos, where they are trying to find their truth in text, symbol and Spirit

 

Reviews:

"A self-described practitioner of 'Nigerian Weird,' a rubric broad enough to take in both the word-intoxicated Amos Tutuola (The Palm-Wine Drinkard) and Booker Prize winner Ben Okri (The Famished Road) . . .  Falowo knows his Gabriel García Márquez." Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Falowo’s transporting debut collection combines the fantastical, the spiritual, and the everyday to vivid effect." Publishers Weekly

"Dare Segun Falowo isn’t your everyday storyteller, and that’s every reason to read him. . .  an exciting and highly imaginative writer . . . Caged Ocean Dub reminds you of the pleasure of reading, simply reading. . . . Falowo superbly crafts each story’s hook, entrancing and luring you into a dream . . ." Aurealis #159